They released a video. Nearly twenty minutes long. It’s a behind-the-scenes peek at Midjourney’s “dunk-tank” ultrasound scanner. An engineer and tech YouTuber, Marcin Plaza, filmed it. He works there now, or at least he says he does.
The machine looks like what it is. Plaza is blunt about it. Scores of ultrasound probes hacked apart. Slapped onto a glorified hot tub that contains an elevator. Powered by off-the-shelf computers. Raspberry Pis do the heavy lifting. It is deployed in spas, apparently. Or will be. They promise cheap imaging. Radiation-free. Detailed enough to change medicine, or so they think.
Experts are not buying the physics. Not the speed. Ultrasound is old tech. Decades old. There are limits. Known limits. The Verge reported that specialists doubt Midjourney can break them. Can you generate those images? At that scale? Without clinical trials?
The company is dodging the medical label. Tom Calloway, the head of medical things, wants you to know it’s a wellness product. Just body composition. No FDA clearance needed for that. No diagnostic claims. Just speedrunning the launch once testing wraps up.
But the language slips. The video keeps asking what physicians would do with this data. Frequent scans over time. That sounds medical.
I don’t think there’s anything to really clarify.
Calloway didn’t seem worried. He promises blogs instead of clarity.
David Holz, the CEO, doesn’t care what anyone says. There are no investors telling him no. That gives him freedom.
- No one can stop him.
- The probe farm spins.
- Questions remain, unanswered, in the echo chamber. 🛁
