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ESOTERICshade ago

Today's News:


Facebooks new proactive detection artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts and mentally ill users.


I guess they intend to flag Pizzagaters as mentally ill and start sending their Facebook friends and police alerts that the user is mentally ill and needs intervention. They may try to get people sequestered for psych evaluations against their will by getting the family to agree that the Facebook user is mentally ill. This is getting very weird...

Hopefully people abandon facebook in huge numbers. There is no way to Opt Out of being scanned either. We need to start memeing that Democracy is a trick word and that a Republic is what we are supposed to be. That will be a hard sell to normies but Democracy is a trick word, just like the trick Democrats.


This is software to save lives. Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, andwhen necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders. By using AI to flag worrisome posts to human moderators instead of waiting for user reports, Facebook can decrease how long it takes to send help.


A mere few years ago the idea that artificial intelligence (AI) might be used to analyze and report to law enforcement aberrant human behavior on social media and other online platforms was merely the far out premise of dystopian movies such as Minority Report, but now Facebook proudly brags that it will use AI to "save lives" based on behavior and thought pattern recognition.

What could go wrong?


“There have been terribly tragic events - like suicides, some live streamed - that perhaps could have been prevented if someone had realized what was happening and reported them sooner... Artificial intelligence can help provide a better approach.” And in a post yesterday announcing the new AI suicide prevention tool integration, he wrote that “In the future, AI will be able to understand more of the subtle nuances of language, and will be able to identify different issues beyond suicide as well, including quickly spotting more kinds of bullying and hate.”


The idea of Facebook proactively scanning the content of people’s posts could trigger some dystopian fears about how else the technology could be applied. Facebook didn’t have answers about how it would avoid scanning for political dissent or petty crime, with Rosen merely saying “we have an opportunity to help here so we’re going to invest in that.” There are certainly massive beneficial aspects about the technology, but it’s another space where we have little choice but to hope Facebook doesn’t go too far.


And if this is not enough to turn the public's stomach, the glowing review ends by again reasserting Facebook's "responsibility" to implement its AI tools, as "Creating a ubiquitous global communication utility comes with responsibilities beyond those of most tech companies, which Facebook seems to be coming to terms with." Essentially, the familiar argument goes, the public should just "trust us" as this is for our "safety" and we are benign and humanitarian, says Facebook.


I've talked to Mark about this. His understanding of the subject is limited.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2017


Ironically as Facebook continues to tout its claims of protecting democracy by taking steps to "ensure the integrity of elections" as Zuckerberg has frequently stated, it will now actively and openly pursue an AI regulated future which, as Elon Musk has personally warned Zuckerberg, will likely be the very source of tyranny and ultimate destruction of future humanity.

As Plato predicted nearly 2500 years ago, “We should expect tyranny to result from democracy, the most savage subjection from an excess of liberty" (Republic, Book VIII, 564 a). http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-28/facebook-announces-it-will-use-ai-scan-your-thoughts-enhance-user-safety

chabon ago

IF, and I mean a really big IF, it was possible to make an AI system that was actually helpful to living creatures -- such a helpful system could never arise out of the paranoid and ignorant so-called scientists and technologists who are leading the charge into the Dark New World.

elephantdoesntforget ago

Since when has any new innovation NOT been used against the general public? Cell phones, TV, internet... all used against the users for the benefit of a few.

chabon ago

Ya.

ESOTERICshade ago

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2264410

Have you seen this weirdness?

chabon ago

Initial thought about the premise: Good God, what now? :}

I don't know enough about AI to evaluate the claim about Q -- Occam's razor suggests LARPers to me. But the fact that we're even talking about the possibility of it being AI? Yikes. I know everything's moving a LOT faster in this area than anyone is really tracking. I just can't believe I'm seeing this -- and chips -- in my lifetime.

ESOTERICshade ago

It does not make sense to me that an AI affiliated with homeland security would suggest looking Alex Podesta.

chabon ago

LOL. Actually LOLing happening here. Need to find the emojis.....