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Sig2340
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No way this shit will be misused by liberal douchebags like Zuckerberg and his minions.

It's not like they gave Clinton and Trump exactly the same balanced coverage....

They better thing twice about reporting me to "the authorities" for any reason.

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www.cnet.com: Facebook is using AI to scan your posts for suicidal thoughts. Cenozoic The software engages in proactive detection and could alert authorities about problems before users report them.

If you're going through a difficult time, Facebook wants to help.

Its artificial intelligence software can now use pattern recognition to scan Facebook posts and live videos for suicidal thoughts.

Once the technology has identified a problem post through what the company calls proactive detection, it alerts a team of human moderators who specialize in dealing with suicide and self harm. These specialists can send mental health resources to the user at risk or to that person's friends and alert the authorities if necessary. The program could flag problem posts before users report them, accelerating the alert process. Help could be sent to people in real time.

"With all the fear about how AI may be harmful in the future," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote Monday, "it's good to remind ourselves how AI is actually helping save people's lives today."

As Zuckerberg points out, not everyone sees AI as benign. Dire warnings regularly come from the likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking.

Facebook has been testing the technology for nine months in the US. Facebook says it has started rolling out its AI outside the US and it will eventually be available worldwide, except the European Union, because of General Data Protection Regulation privacy laws, which restrict all forms of profiling.

Facebook is no stranger to artificial intelligence. In June, for instance, it let the world know about FAIR, short for Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research, an initiative involving AI bots that can negotiate. This feeds into Facebook's effort to build smarter chatbots in general. Facebook also uses AI to assess image content for search purposes and for photo captions, which computers can read out to blind people. It's even experimenting with ways to use AI in counterterrorism efforts on its site.

First published Nov. 27, 6:33 a.m. PT.

Update, Nov. 28 at 3:01 p.m.: Confirms Facebook has started rolling out its technology to the rest of the world




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It didn't do shit for my friend, Amanda.


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With a focus on gun owners, I'd wager.

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Never had a facebook account never will.
 
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I think facebook, like govt., will prove to be untrustworthy with its power.


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radioman
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Originally posted by Jelly:
Never had a facebook account never will.


I hate to tell you this.... There's some likelihood they know about you anyway. Do you have acquaintances who post there? Has your pic ever shown up there?

They have a web of who knows who, and you might be part of it, regardless of your account status.


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Yeah, I got your scan, hangin'.

Go ahead. Scan this.

 
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When it comes down to the likes of Zuckerfool vs Musk and Hawking I'm gonna have to go ahead and choose the latter...


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Originally posted by Jelly:
Never had a facebook account never will.


I hate to tell you this.... There's some likelihood they know about you anyway. Do you have acquaintances who post there? Has your pic ever shown up there?

They have a web of who knows who, and you might be part of it, regardless of your account status.
But not having a Facebook account makes if far less likely and much harder for these characters to target me. I simply explain to people who ask that Facebook "...just isn't for me".


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