I guess that's one way to keep MAUs up.
Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide
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#22Dead men buy no products.
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#23This may or may not be a useful technology, but the fact that Facebook thinks they have the ability and the right to diagnose their users with mental illnesses is disturbing. They have more information about their users than psychologists have about their patients. They can (and do) build a psychological profile and diagnose mental illness. Yet rather than keeping this information in the closest confidence, they sell…
Interesting.. I wonder if these profiles fall under HIPAA.
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#24Reminds me of PreCrime from Minority Report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precrime
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#25How long before Facebook notifies my local police that I seem to be likely to commit a crime?
Don't forget Facebook operates worldwide. Suicide is a crime in some places.
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#26Does this mean they have created a training set of posts/behaviour prior to suicide?
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#27Devils advocate here, why must we prevent suicide?
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#28Do folks on HN actually think this is the only psychological metric Facebook is tracking, and that this is something new?
A slightly obsessive, insecure state of mind makes for the most engaged Facebook user. If they can give people a bit of a nudge in that direction, it’s great for business. Suicide, while resulting in increased engagement among friends and relatives, is bad for business overall — you’re losing users, and people might start to really question what you’re doing to their heads.
It’s amazing that this gets turned into a feelgood story by the press, rather than an investigation into what Facebook has known about their users’ mental states and for how long. This is like congratulating a tobacco company on warning people not to smoke 3 packs a day.
I want their PR team.
Re: Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide
#29This may or may not be a useful technology, but the fact that Facebook thinks they have the ability and the right to diagnose their users with mental illnesses is disturbing. They have more information about their users than psychologists have about their patients. They can (and do) build a psychological profile and diagnose mental illness. Yet rather than keeping this information in the closest confidence, they sell…
Interesting.. I wonder if these profiles fall under HIPAA.
Doea medical data not talked about in a medical setting trigger HIPAA?
(Like me talking that I'm type 2 diabetic?)
Re: Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide
#30This may or may not be a useful technology, but the fact that Facebook thinks they have the ability and the right to diagnose their users with mental illnesses is disturbing. They have more information about their users than psychologists have about their patients. They can (and do) build a psychological profile and diagnose mental illness. Yet rather than keeping this information in the closest confidence, they sell…
> Yet rather than keeping this information in the closest confidence, they sell it to the highest bidder.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/faceb...