>outrageNOT give Facebook - or any other party - permission to know if the Suicide Bit is flipped.... S'rsly, is anyone else not having a serious "WTF!" moment about the very substance of where we are at?
>/outrage<
Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide
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#42I think this is an important measure, but Facebook is literally the last company I'd trust to get it right.
I don't have a Facebook user, but I wonder how much goodwill Facebook has in the bank with its user when it comes to things like this.
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#43Wonderful example of how we can use AI for good. Now, if this catches on, I can see Facebook adapting their algorithm to recommend treatments for depression, anxiety, even ADHD. This would be a huge success. "Mr. Smith, I see Facebook's AI considers you a strong candidate for medication X and your doctor agrees. Can you explain then why you haven't been taking medication X?" Also, if an algorithm can detect when a pe…
I agree. If Facebook can use mechanisms like this to help treat the disorders they cause we don’t have to look at their true cost to people’s lives.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?)
I can't speak to HIPAA, but medical data is covered by the EU's new GDPR framework.
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#45Oh nice, maybe they'll do some A/B testing since there not bothered by those pesky ethics regulations. Who needs those anyway? I mean, just swing people moods, informally diagnose them, and profit by selling the data. Free healthcare, brought to you buy the capitalism system!
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#46This 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…
What would be cool is if someone could build a GAN based on the Facebook AI training set to spit out comments that would be indicative of certain moods. This capability would be great for autistic people trying to react appropriately in social situations... or an AI chatbot trying to act human.
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#47I so wish people would stop abusing the term AI. This is an application that employs heuristics upon scanned data and then executes events. By that definition half of everything written in JavaScript is AI.
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#48This is an unbelievably slippery slope. It has the potential for great good, but also for great harm. Cliched and click-bait phrases, but I believe they are accurate in this instance. I'll try to explain why I believe that. A case has been made that Facebook users are not the customers, they are the product, and that data purchasers and advertisers are the customers. If Facebook can determine whether you are suicidal…
I don't think its a slippery slope - its more like the gaping precipice. Within a few generations, we will have members of society who believe such extreme manipulation is the norm. Well, its already here, anyway - but at what cost will we expose future generations to our idiotic, un-tested, software systems!!
Perhaps the only answer is to stop using the freakin' social web, but .. really .. how can we do that?
This is almost, really, the last straw, Facebook!
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#49the article does not mention how a possible intervention would look like; if they don't report a user with suicidal posts to the authorities then facebook will be sued by relatives of those who put an end to their lives; if they do report it then they will be sued by privacy advocates. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
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#50>outrage NOT give Facebook - or any other party - permission to know if the Suicide Bit is flipped.... S'rsly, is anyone else not having a serious "WTF!" moment about the very substance of where we are at? >/outrage<
No, because you do not own data you submit to Facebook. It is their data and they can do anything they want with it. If you find that disgusting then don't give data to Facebook.