I am begging a tech journalist to destroy Calmara, a new AI app that claims it can detect whether or not someone has an STI from a photograph. Not only is this NOT how STI symptoms work, the data ramifications are horrifying.

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@mattbinder.bsky.social this sounds like job for you.

You should never give a company your period and pregnancy information, and like hell should you give any company your sexual history to try getting a diagnosis for an STI... Always go to a DOCTOR! Not a company!

I get the feeling they just put "AI" in front of a bunch of two word phrases and selected the first one they got 0 hits on to base their startup on.

here's one from Engadget

Friends don’t let friends use an AI STI test

You can use image-based AIs for plenty of things, but probably not for this.

Have you seen this @zitron.bsky.social ?

This is an elaborate setup for a news story reading "totally foreseeable thing occurs"

YIKES

what the FUCK

I get contacted by scammy STI apps all the time because of my history as a herpes patient advocate, but this is the most polished and dangerous one I've seen in ages. The MBA brain rot is real.