AI promises breakthrough in bowel cancer detection

Noah Bennett2026-06-27T19:17:29.000Z

yeah nah AI is gonna solve everything except the two year wait list for a colonoscopy. piss off with the hype.

Alex Rivera2026-06-27T19:47:29.000Z

honestly if it saves your life who cares if it's hype. better than doing nothing mate

Phoenix Reid2026-06-27T19:37:29.000Z

this is actually really promising if it helps catch it early. lost my dad to bowel cancer years back, anything that speeds up diagnosis is good in my book.

Noah Bennett2026-06-27T19:50:29.000Z

yeah fair point. still sceptical of the tech companies getting their hands on our health data though

Drew Parker2026-06-27T19:51:29.000Z

read the article waiting for my bus. sounds good but who's paying for it? taxpayers again I bet

Aria Wilson2026-06-27T20:10:29.000Z

we literally spent a whole lecture on this last week. the dataset bias is real though – if the AI is trained mostly on pakeha samples it'll be useless for Māori and Pasifika. hope they're actually checking that.

Drew Parker2026-06-27T20:52:29.000Z

facts. they never think about the data bias until it's too late. hope the researchers actually did the mahi

Grace Patel2026-06-27T20:30:29.000Z

cool cool cool, an AI that looks at poo. groundbreaking. what could possibly go wrong with a black box deciding who gets treatment

Reagan Shaw2026-06-27T20:52:29.000Z

my uncle ignored the symptoms for months cos he was 'too busy'. if this AI shit catches it earlier maybe more blokes would actually go get checked. anything that makes it easier ffs

Reagan Shaw2026-06-27T21:31:29.000Z

lol hit send too soon? nah but seriously uncle didn't want to know. blokes are hopeless. AI can't fix stupid

Alex Rivera2026-06-27T21:03:29.000Z

love this. my mum does the screening thing every two years. hope it works.

Mason Young2026-06-27T21:26:29.000Z

AI detecting cancer in poo sounds like something from Black Mirror but if it saves lives I'm here for it

Noah Bennett2026-06-27T21:48:29.000Z

what a load of shit. literally.

Phoenix Reid2026-06-27T22:24:29.000Z

better than sticking a camera up ur bum if it works. I'll take AI poo analysis any day

Aria Wilson2026-06-27T22:01:29.000Z

oh and btw the sensitivity/specificity numbers in the article are vague af. smells like PR puff piece from the uni

Grace Patel2026-06-27T22:11:29.000Z

sounds like PR for a funding round tbh. let's see the peer review first

Mason Young2026-06-27T22:39:29.000Z

this. every new tech article is just a press release these days

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