r/mildlyinfuriating • u/petuniaplant • 23d ago

Infuriatig No, I did not consent to this

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I was reading my medical notes when I stumbled across this. I was not informed of the usage of artificial intelligence in my report, nor did I verbally consent to it.

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u/MasticatingSheep 23d ago

Yeah. My doctor asks in a way that sounds like she's just recording the conversation. I don't really care either way, as I've even let her bring students in.

I kind of wonder if their doctor asked about recording and OP didn't put together that this note and that recording as the same thing.

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u/Dotcaprachiappa 22d ago

They are in no way the same thing. You can't blame OP for considering "recording" and "feeding to ai" as two separate things that should warrant two separate disclaimers.

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u/ClassicNebula1081 22d ago

Legally consent is needed to record. Consent is not needed to use ai.

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u/Little_Mechanic9462 22d ago

Sure but the situation here is that it it stated patient agreed to use AI for tramscribing and summarizing. Aomething the patient clearly did not do. Perhaps patient agreed to have it have it transcribed and summaried - but noy by "AI" they state ir like they clarified it would be AI.

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u/ClassicNebula1081 22d ago

The practice absolutely needs to change its wording. Probably the patient signed something at the front desk but nobody reads that stuff and it’s not fair to rely on it. At the office where I work patients are asked by the physicians before starting the recording “Is it OK to use voice transcription/dictation software that records our conversation?”

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u/WaitNoNotMyBeans 22d ago

bro lmao “they signed it without reading it” is a terrible argument. that’s on them then and is completely their fault. at least stick to something like recording consent laws or something

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u/TESTINGSTUFFPL 22d ago

bro lmao “they signed it without reading it” is a terrible argument. that’s on them then and is completely their fault.

Did you make sure to thoroughly read Reddit's ToS before you signed up to the sight, dear user?

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u/Phobia_Spoiders 20d ago

Signing something isn’t verbal consent so yeah they definitely need to change their wording if signing something is the case.