Yes, I was trying to be funny. The place where I work has a goulash of mismatched old and new software, too.

Do we work for the same place? 😆

I understand, and we’re basically on the same page. I’m not fully anti-AI, either. Like any tool, it can be used for good or evil. And you are right to have concerns about data stored in the cloud. The tech bros will mock you for it and then… oh look, another data breach has it been five minutes already. :)

I agree with you but that ship has sailed. I work with big medical data and it’s shocking the stuff that gets stored and passed around. The really big players like PBMs and major insurance providers are supposed to abide by HIPAA but they do not fear enforcement at all. Only the small fish like doctors, etc, need fear HIPAA.

It is true that Dragon and similar apps have been used for years. But I don’t think it’s fair to say OP is being paranoid and a luddite. Data breaches in the cloud are a weekly occurrence, and OP wanting to protect their voice / biometrics is not foolish it’s smarter than the average bear. You can change a compromised password. You can’t change your biometrics or voice.

Also, those products were used on local networks for many years before they entered the cloud. They gradually reduce our privacy over time, getting people numb to it.

I was afraid that might be the case. Was hoping they would let you upload the files as if you had typed them yourself.

Maybe find some studies / articles on transcription bots getting medical terminology and drug names wrong. I’m sure that happens. AI is getting scary-good, but it’s far from perfect, and this is potentially a low-possibility-but-dangerous-consequences kind of scenario. Unfortunately the marketers of their software probably have canned responses to these types of concerns. Management is going to hear what they want to hear.

I agree that getting the point across and having them rethink this whole thing is a much better way of handling this than using a tech solution. I am just pessimistic you can change their minds and you might need a plan B.

I had another idea. You might be able to use something that distorts your voice so that it doesn’t sound anything like you, but the AI can still transcribe it to text. There are some cheap novelty devices on amazon that do this, and also some more expensive pro audio gear that does the same thing. Just a thought.

Will they allow you to use your own non-cloud solution? As long as you turn in text documents and they don’t have to pay a person to transcribe, they should be happy. There are a number of speech to text apps you can run locally on a laptop, phone, or tablet.

But of course, it’s sometimes about control and exercising their corporate authority over you. Bosses get off on that shit.

Not sure which type of doctor you are, but there’s a general shortage of NPI people. I hope you can fight back with some leverage. Best of luck.

It’s frustrating how many non-joiners are completely turned off by the part where you hunt for an instance to join. They act like it’s super confusing and scary (when in fact it’s ‘super easy, barely an inconvenience’).

Meanwhile these same people will scour the internet looking for a recipe or bootleg movie or whatever.

It’s really frustrating when you remember what a huge PITA it is to get your account going on reddit. Sure, the first part is easy enough, it’s just registering on the site. But then you find you can’t do jack shit because you don’t have enough karma and every sub you visit has 10,000 arbitrary byzantine rules to deal with because the mods got picked on in high school.

Lemmy is actually EASIER than reddit. But here we are.

Might depend on the instance or client. I’m using Liftoff. They cease to exist for me.

It’s like a ratcheting effect. Every time schmeddit fucks up, we gain a few more. And if you can count on Spez for one thing, it’s that he’ll reliably fuck up on the regular.

100% agree. Have encountered a few jerkwads on Lemmy but hey, blocking works. The overall vibe here is 100x better than schmeddit.

Preach. I hate the “bubble” that curated / sponsored feeds try to wrap everyone inside of.

A huge userbase like reddit’s is both a pro and a con. The big advantages include diversity of content (especially niche/hobby stuff), more content, and higher frequency of new content overall.

But it comes with some pretty big disadvantages, too. Moderation is difficult so they are happy to let a small number of “power mods” run everything. Subs that were fun & interesting in the past…after they hit the front page and become popular they go downhill quickly. Divisive USA-centric politics.

And of course the “asshole filter” effect: where the assholes drive away the non-assholes, so the concentration of assholes is always going up.

I’ve been running into this, too. Similar issues with Jerboa.