{"id":201724,"date":"2026-04-02T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/artificial-scarcity-meet-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:35:11","slug":"artificial-scarcity-meet-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/artificial-scarcity-meet-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Scarcity, Meet Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthapiguy.substack.com\/p\/artificial-scarcity-meet-artificial\">Artificial Scarcity, Meet Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthapiguy.substack.com\/p\/artificial-scarcity-meet-artificial\">https:\/\/healthapiguy.substack.com\/p\/artificial-scarcity-meet-artificial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-02 19:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"healthapiguy.substack.com\">healthapiguy.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Court Decision on AI and Copyright<\/strong>: The Bartz v. Anthropic case has set a precedent showing that AI training on copyrighted materials can qualify as &#8220;spectacularly transformative&#8221; fair use, provided the materials aren&#8217;t pirated or illegal, raising questions about its application in the healthcare field.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Mcg and InterQual Overview<\/strong>: MCG (Milliman Care Guidelines) and InterQual are proprietary clinical decision-support references widely used to determine medical necessity for treatments; they have substantial market share and significant licensing fees.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Criticism of Proprietary Systems<\/strong>: These guidelines are often criticized for being closed systems with no public input, opacity, and contributing to &#8220;rulification,&#8221; which transforms individualized medical necessity decisions into algorithm-driven checks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Potential Legal Challenges and Regulatory Spillovers<\/strong>: Regulatory requirements force piecemeal disclosure of the proprietary criteria of MCG and InterQual, raising risks of incremental exposure that could be aggregated over time, potentially leading to AI models undermining these systems.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Artificial Scarcity vs. Clinical Insight<\/strong>: The dominance of MCG and InterQual might stem more from artificial scarcity than superior clinical insights; AI models trained on medical literature and publicly available guidelines could challenge their position.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Regulatory Risks of Fragmented Disclosure<\/strong>: The gradual disclosure of proprietary criteria through mechanisms like prior authorization denials carries a risk of &#8220;slow drip&#8221; reconstruction that could eventually allow their compilation to be used and potentially re-used in AI models despite legal protections.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Future Speculation<\/strong>: There is a possibility that startups, even those breaching legal boundaries, could develop tools that disrupt the proprietary systems like MCG and InterQual, possibly sparking broader legal and ethical debates in the AI and healthcare intersection.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Scarcity, Meet Artificial Intelligence https:\/\/healthapiguy.substack.com\/p\/artificial-scarcity-meet-artificial Publish Date: 2026-04-02 19:00:00 Source Domain: healthapiguy.substack.com Court Decision&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!ikjx!,w_1200,h_675,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d4246b0-cd1f-4d03-b01f-9641c630a52a_385x489.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-201724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201726,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201724\/revisions\/201726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}