Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide

Re:Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide by rdtsc on Monday November 27, 2017 @06:44PM (#15792850)

Even more, we've seen articles which pointed out how using Facebook makes people more depressed and doesn't help with isolation, and loneliness. So in a terribly ironic way, Facebook is making them depressed, but then it doesn't want to them to die because there's nobody left to lick the "Like" button, so it deploys AI doctors to diagnose and prevent suicide from happening.

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Re:Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide by eeZah7Ux on Monday November 27, 2017 @07:18PM (#15793099)

This is really accurate. Keeping people depressed and addicted works for Facebook, in the alcohol industry, food, gambling and so on.

And now a company with extremely powerful AI capabilities want to fine-tune the addiction algorithm to maximize profits.

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Re:Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide by tomc1985 on Monday November 27, 2017 @06:58PM (#15792946)

Sounds like the old 'break their windows by night, fix em by day' trick

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Re:Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide by lostlogin on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:56PM (#15793598)

I get sick of screen touchers on a shared machine I use. This comment made me cringe.

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