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> software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down Facebook-controlled depression, what a dream

• heavyset_go 8y ago
  Depressed people are likely to shop to alleviate their depression symptoms temporarily, too.
• charlesism 8y ago
  It's an article about the future, so we don't need to bring up Facebook.
• r3bl 8y ago
  I keep spamming this link, but it's important to be repeated: Facebook already intentionally manipulated emotions of a "small number of users" (700k), proved it was possible, and released a paper on it almost half a decade ago. https://slate.com/technology/2014/06/facebook-unethical-experiment-it-made-news-feeds-happier-or-sadder-to-manipulate-peoples-emotions.html https://slate.com/technology/2014/06/facebook-unethical-expe...
  • trishmapow2 8y ago
    Link to paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788 https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788. (It does say 'massive-scale' though)