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AI? You think it needs Facebook's AI? Facebook literally did this study. Not, as an AI thing, as in Data Scientists actually did a study on the rates of depres

AI? You think it needs Facebook's AI? Facebook literally did this study. Not, as an AI thing, as in Data Scientists actually did a study on the rates of depression when you changed people's news feed to show primarily positive and negative news. And then Facebook used that data to tune how negative they could make the feed and still drive engagement. One of the signals they were getting from that study was suicide rate. I'm not certain how it was measured; I don't care. I saw that it was measured and decided that it was not a place I could stand to work. Their standard operation is to preform studies that wouldn't even be laughed out of an ethical review committee. They don't blink an eye. They just don't begin to view their users as humans. Facebook are war criminals. There's nothing more to it.

traek 9y ago
> One of the signals they were getting from that study was suicide rate. I'm not certain how it was measured; I don't care. I saw that it was measured and decided that it was not a place I could stand to work. Where did you see that suicide rate was measured? Did you work at Facebook?
walrus01 9y ago
For those who haven't seen it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/#604eedc0197c https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...
TaylorAlexander 9y ago
> war criminals. I dislike this kind of inaccurate rhetoric. I suppose one could make some claim that someone is at war with someone and Facebook exacerbated it, but the more strained your argument is the more easily people can dismiss you. Facebook is psychologically manipulative. Facebook uses human attention for profit. Facebook moderates our connections with other people for its own gains. All these are accurate indictments of facebooks behavior. But if you call then war criminals and don’t articulate what war you’re talking about, it just sounds inflammatory.
lolsal 9y ago
> Facebook are war criminals. There's nothing more to it. It is entirely unnecessary to jump to extremes like that. There are gradients and nuances here.

traek 9y ago

> One of the signals they were getting from that study was suicide rate. I'm not certain how it was measured; I don't care. I saw that it was measured and decided that it was not a place I could stand to work. Where did you see that suicide rate was measured? Did you work at Facebook?

walrus01 9y ago

For those who haven't seen it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/#604eedc0197c https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

TaylorAlexander 9y ago

> war criminals. I dislike this kind of inaccurate rhetoric. I suppose one could make some claim that someone is at war with someone and Facebook exacerbated it, but the more strained your argument is the more easily people can dismiss you. Facebook is psychologically manipulative. Facebook uses human attention for profit. Facebook moderates our connections with other people for its own gains. All these are accurate indictments of facebooks behavior. But if you call then war criminals and don’t articulate what war you’re talking about, it just sounds inflammatory.

lolsal 9y ago

> Facebook are war criminals. There's nothing more to it. It is entirely unnecessary to jump to extremes like that. There are gradients and nuances here.