The chance of a hidden camera existing is near 0%.
How would you know this? The chance of them getting caught might be near 0%, but the fact that they're hidden means that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. You'd only have data for the ones that were found.
Do people not make a distinction between technology companies and the technology itself? I do. I have a fancy (okay, kind of pointless, but nerdy AF) folding pixel phone but I have GrapheneOS on it, because I don't like giving Google all my data for free. I can find the technology fascinating while distrusting and calling out the technology company.
But it's even more than just what you say. I'm heavily downvoted in this comment section because I dared ask a hypothetical philosophical question? I made it pretty clear it was just a philosophical question, so what's the issue? I get very strong "shut up and hate it with us" vibes. Pretty sad, in my useless opinion.
I think it's getting close to time for another break from social media.
But hey, I appreciate your thoughtful response, truly.
Despite the world seemingly hellbent on making me a cynic, I find encouraging that she got so close to winning, despite her being a flawed candidate because of her questionable stances in the past.
I listened to her interview on Pod Save America and she definitely could have been more forceful about making the case that she'd grown from her past stances. I still would have voted for her, if I lived there, but I'm also probably more dialed in to politics than the average voter.
Don't get me wrong here, I'm not advocating for bodyworn cameras (or any cameras) in exam rooms, on or off-- I just find it interesting where the line is.
From my perspective, if you think your doctor is a creep enough to surreptitiously record you in the exam room using a camera that's on their face, then you can't rule out that they'd do it in ways that would be more difficult to detect. And if you do trust them not to record you with a hidden camera, then that trust should extend to a camera in plain sight.
At the end of the day, people have a right to be comfortable in these situations with their doctor, regardless of if it makes logical sense. I hope I didn't come off suggesting otherwise.
I only spend time on Lemmy in bursts, but it has become pretty clear that most people in this "technology" community absolutely hate all forms of technology. It's pretty weird.
Sure, but if a person doesn't trust their doctor to have a camera in their possession in the room, why would they trust that same doctor not to have one hidden?
It comes down to trust, though. Look at it this way: if a doctor wanted to surreptitiously record a patient during a state of undress, would they do it with a camera on their face, or one hidden in the room?
However, it is kind of funny (interesting?) that people will trust that there isn't a hidden camera in the exam room without question, but mistrust someone who has a camera openly displayed, but off, in the exam room. As if the reminder that cameras exist is what negates that trust, not the risk of being recorded.
This is more of a philosophical musing than a defense of wearing a camera into an exam room.
Imagine how silly it might have sounded to suggest that at one point most people would carry super powerful computers in their pockets, back when it took an entire room to do very basic computing.
"AI today" changes every few months, they aren't more error prone than humans at medium complexity code, and debugging a problem is different than checking someone's work. (And not for nothing, but Code Generation LLMs are really good at finding bugs in code, if passed the code.)
That's not to mention that prompting AI is a skill that needs to be learned, despite LLMs being able to accept natural language prompts. Not learning how to use a tool and then claiming the tool isn't useful doesn't really say much about the tool.
There's a saying about how its impossible to convince someone of something if they're financially incentivized to remain unconvinced that I think applies to most people when they discuss AI.
As I said elsewhere, I can differentiate between technology and technology companies. I didn't realize that was so odd.