AIs hallucinating that the patients whose medical notes they are transcribing used illegal drugs. What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672
Mildly interesting but not surprising. Note taking and review is a basic skill for any GP. Take that away and doctors get dumber.
@gregeganSF error-generator generated error, everyone in shock!
And no mention of banning automatically adding errors to medical records
Aug 14, 2026, 11:08 AM@gregeganSF
Jfc a paid shill says there is a 25% to 33% error rate
> Three years ago, I would have to correct multiple things on each transcription. These days it's like one correction every third or fourth transcription."
> Dr Stevens is a big advocate of tech; he is the RACGP's Digital Health and Innovation chair as well as an advisor for one of the biggest AI scribes, but he admits AI has its weaknesses and can produce incorrect results that sound plausible.
@gregeganSF Some doctors say AI based note-taking solutions make the notes much less useful.
This doctor stopped using them altogether:
https://benngooch.substack.com/p/i-was-an-enthusiastic-early-adopter
@gregeganSF cops' AIs hallucinating will be fun too.
Oh sure, the urologist took accuracy so very seriously that they didn’t read the transcription at all.
Aug 14, 2026, 2:17 PM@gregeganSF what could go wrong is the sh*tty management introducing a system where , even when an error is identified (by the patient) they were "not...able to determine how the claim about mushrooms came to be included"
Jfc get some new managers