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Re:I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner by senordevnyc on Monday June 22, 2026 @07:17AM (#48628666)
the vast majority of objections I've seen to Midjourney's announcement have been that qualified folks just don't believe the tech is medically feasible

The original Midjourney Medical thread here on HN was loaded with people confidently declaring that these kinds of scans are a bad idea and net negative because of the risk of false positives.

Re:I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner by disgruntledphd2 on Monday June 22, 2026 @09:53AM (#48630181)
> The original Midjourney Medical thread here on HN was loaded with people confidently declaring that these kinds of scans are a bad idea and net negative because of the risk of false positives.

Conditional on low base rates, and the need for invasive follow-up testing, they are likely to cause more problems than they solve.

But personally, I love all this stuff and have an emotional belief that more data is always better, which is weird in cases like this where it turns out that's not the case.