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Meta Patents Technology to Detect Your Mood by Constantly Analyzing Your Tone of Voice (futurism.com)
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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What is new with this? "Affective Computing" was researched at MIT since 1995.

(And I doubt that the idea to use something for mass surveillance justifies a patent).

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 6 points 4 days ago

Butbutbut this is with AI!

Totally different, as far as the patent office is concerned anyway.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Lifelog!

Privacy advocates and lawmakers worried the program would be used for reasons other than tracking troop locations. How long until all American lives were logged and analyzed?

Roughly ten years.