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by rdtsc 3129 days ago
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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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.

Sounds like the old 'break their windows by night, fix em by day' trick
I get sick of screen touchers on a shared machine I use. This comment made me cringe.