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That’s a good start, but it barely scratches the surface when it comes to the dangers of AI emotion recognition. Also, those Muse headbands that read your alph
by disabled 6y ago
That’s a good start, but it barely scratches the surface when it comes to the dangers of AI emotion recognition.
Also, those Muse headbands that read your alpha brainwaves which are used for meditation are dangerous. While they are incapable via (hardware) technical specifications of being able to determine your emotions via code, it can determine whether your mind is in a clear or distracted state. Hence it is used for “meditation” and is considered to be “beneficial” for that purpose.
But, of course it nearly certainly can be used for perpetual harassment, especially since third-party apps can interface with it. Is your mind clear (according to the headset, via code)? Alright, time to bombard you with harassing adtech. Also, it benefits the “designers” of these apps as it makes you more dependent on the device.
The same goes for other consumer EEG devices. The ones that are used with sleep like the Dreem 2 can be used to make your life a total hell through unethical experimentation and more.
I honestly have no hope on such issues. Spotify AB (a Swedish based company), for example, is believed to violate the GDPR. Not only that, they have a patent pending for emotion detection based on your song listening/streaming pattern. There are projects doing this for Spotify doing this exact thing publicly available online at GitHub of course.