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by dartos 522 days ago
Seems like you’re reading this rather broadly. Pathologically so.

An AI textbook QA tool may be able to infer emotions, but it’s not a function of that system.

> The AI act does not appear to be beneficial for anyone

It’s an attempt to be forward thinking. Imagine a fleet of emotionally abusive AI peers or administrators meant to shame students into studying more.

Hyperbolic example, sure, but that’s what the law seems to try and prevent

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Calling me pathological doesn’t really strengthen the argument.

One can certainly imagine a textbook QA tool that doesn’t infer emotions. If one were introduced to the market with the ability to do so, it would seem to run afoul of the law, regardless of whether it was marketed as such.

The fact is that any textbook QA systems based on a current frontier model CAN infer emotions.

If they were so forward thinking, why ban emotion detection and not emotional abuse?