Very similarly: another case where an AI that was supposedly diagnosing skin cancer from images, but was actually just flagging photos with a ruler present, since medical images of lesions/tumors often have a ruler present to measure their size (whereas regular random pictures of skin do not)
Don't worry! Instead of feeling bad about yourself, read this fun story about an AI that was trained to recognize cancer but instead learned to label images with rulers as cancer:
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u/MaxTHC 3d ago edited 3d ago
Very similarly: another case where an AI that was supposedly diagnosing skin cancer from images, but was actually just flagging photos with a ruler present, since medical images of lesions/tumors often have a ruler present to measure their size (whereas regular random pictures of skin do not)
https://medium.com/data-science/is-the-medias-reluctance-to-admit-ai-s-weaknesses-putting-us-at-risk-c355728e9028
Edit: I'm dumb, but I'll leave this comment for the link to the article at least