…the company had crafted a pitch deck for advertisers bragging that it could exploit “moments of psychological vulnerability” in its users by targeting terms like “worthless,” “insecure,” “stressed,” “defeated,” “anxious,” “stupid,” “useless,” and “like a failure.”
As much as there’s an opportunity for selling a product, there’s an opportunity for extending support. Maybe there’s a sliver of a silver lining in that this surveillance could be used for good. It’s disheartening though that of course this will never happen.
I mean, if you wanted to be the good guy, you’d develop AI chat bots that could reach out to people seemingly in distress.
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml
on 20 May 15:02
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It will never be used for good by capitalists, sadly.
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Nothing new in this world. You can think of anything you want and assuming you have funds you can materialise it
As much as there’s an opportunity for selling a product, there’s an opportunity for extending support. Maybe there’s a sliver of a silver lining in that this surveillance could be used for good. It’s disheartening though that of course this will never happen.
I mean, if you wanted to be the good guy, you’d develop AI chat bots that could reach out to people seemingly in distress.
It will never be used for good by capitalists, sadly.
This is the year I hope to have Meta fully out of my life.