Submitted 1 year ago by LollerCorleone@kbin.social to workreform@lemmy.world
Emotion recognition systems are finding growing use, from monitoring customer responses to ads to scanning for ‘distressed’ women in danger.
It’s about time we start holding the engineers building these technologies responsible directly.
I’m not talking about scientists expanding knowledge, I’m talking specifically about the engineers building these technologies.
Is mood recognition a tool useful for anything other than maintaining power over others (actually curious)?
You can to an extent, but that's a losing venture. If pubic opinion goes against this tech hard enough, it'll keep some people from working in those industries. BUT if those products are profitable enough, they will simply pay more and that'll be moot.
Attacking the people who are earning a living isn't the answer. Most people take the job with the best combo of pay and work/life balance they can find in their area, or if they can afford to move. Not that many have the luxury to pick and choose based on their morality. And if compensation is high enough, it's a lot less likely.
It's far easier to try to prevent this tech from being used at all. I know political action is hard as hell but it's a lot easier than trying to ostracize an entire industry's worth of workers. It may feel easier to denigrate faceless individuals but that won't accomplish anything. Plenty of people work for weapons manufacturers and such.
Plenty of people work for weapons manufacturers and such.
And those are bad people. If you work to build technology used to maintain power when you have an option not to, what else can that be called? These people are not desperate for a job.
I’m an engineer, I quit Intel (after the startup I worked for was acquired) because Intel powers much of the MI complex. I quit Illumina when it became clear I was directly assisting with state level genetic experiments. As an engineer I could easily get a job elsewhere where I was not directly contributing to the downfall of my fellow humans.
Take McDonald’s for example. There’s a difference between someone who needs a job working in a restaurant and an Engineer working for McDonald’s figuring out how to more efficiently slaughter animals paid only to be concerned about their employer’s profit – that engineer could go work to more efficiently bake cookies.
Is mood recognition a tool useful for anything other than maintaining power over others (actually curious)?
If you ever want a real General AI then it will need the ability to recognize the mood of the person it’s interacting with. ESPECIALLY if you want to use it for things like Mental Health Counseling.
Good thing. I DONT want a general AI
Mental Health Counseling.
Thanks, that’s a valid answer like I was looking for. Though we don’t have actual AI and probably won’t have actual AGI for at least a good decade (we currently have machine learning and complex decision trees which appear kinda intelligent to us in 2023).
At a certain point, not just the companies doing this are to blame but the people working for them as well. Who tf does that? People need to have some self fucking respect
This dystopian nightmare we're moving into is actually making me suicidal. There's no way to escape it anymore. You just can't. I feel completely incompatible with the direction the world is moving, and I'm finding it difficult to remain optimistic that people will revolt. It seems ANYTHING for slight convenience at the cost of personal privacy, autonomy and ability to maintain a barrier between yourself and the government/corporations is just accepted by the average person, and I feel I'm fighting a losing battle.
Sounds like you are fighting on behalf of the whole world. I hope you get some times with yourself or a smaller circle that are positive and a break from the dumpster fires of modern civilization.
I hope they keep a lot of drive space for the depression folder.
I DON’T NEED TO BE/ACT HAPPY TO GET MY JOB DONE
If they could do that, they would probably see how God damn miserable most people are.
Great, now I have to walk around with permanent poker face.
Everyday we get closer to the cyberpunk dystopia.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Too bad it gets the emotion and not the context.
I’d love to be fired because “I hate making money for greedy ass capitalists” pops up on a screen whenever I come in.
thanevim@kbin.social 1 year ago
The thing is though, I don't see how someone like this could even work out.
Like, you hire employee 1, they get frustrated at something overnight. You fire them for being upset. Now you have to fill the seat. Employee 2 is brought on. They get told what happened to the person they replaced. They leave or are fired for having emotion and being human. This repeats ad nauseum.
radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Let’s be real, most of us would get weeded out at the interview when they start spilling all the “we’re like a family” bullshit.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m guessing it’s going to be implemented as identifying “persistent negative attitudes” and as validation to fire anyone in non-fire-at-will locales.