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My medical records are riddled with artisinal fully human-generated hallucinations and missing information. The AI note takers, even with the rate of issues noted in the article, seem to have crossed the threshold to be an improvement on the current system. The records still suck at a similar level, but as you noted it frees up clinicians to add a few more minutes of engagement per patient visit.
Yes, and you might also say that time-starved humans just reviewing LLM output may generate more accurate reports than having to write them from scratch in a rush. That's until humans get complacent or are expected to do even more per minute. But there is a fundamental difference. Unlike humans, LLMs don't understand context and don't do sanity checks. When they hallucinate they can do so wildly, without a sense of implications, but always with confidence.