Counterfeit drugs are running rampant around the world. Case in point: More than one million people die each year from counterfeit drugs and more than 200,000 people die each year from counterfeit anti-allergy drugs alone
#AI can help
an AI-based counterfeit detector comes from Cypheme. Found in OpenAI’s GPTStore, this tech can allow consumers to verify the authenticity of health products using a smartphone.
@ecksmc
I was surprised that even cancer meds are on this list of common counterfeits - scary stuff. Thx for sharing the info on this useful application of AI
@Esther 👍
anything that can make money for a counterfeit team/gang/person is "fair game" to them
yeah is scary stuff cause people can easily get sucked into using them
@ecksmc they should have ai used as this, not as a crooks tool
Here is how this can help:
Detect counterfeit medicine by spotting anomalies in the packaging.
Distinguish between fake and genuine products with a 99.54% accuracy rate.
Exclusively trained using images of authentic packages, making it less challenging for an image-processing AI.
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