Tech Firms Want to Know Your Emotions

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Tech companies wanted to detect your emotions and relaying those back to said company is nothing new, remember when Google Glassholes were getting scraped, or Facebook was advertising based on emotion? Well, we are not close to that being over, and folks don't seem to like it very much. Whodathunkit?

As revealed in a patent filing, Facebook is interested in using webcams and smartphone cameras to read our emotions, and track expressions and reactions. The idea is that by understanding emotional behaviour, Facebook can show us more of what we react positively to in our Facebook news feeds and less of what we do not - whether that's friends' holiday photos, or advertisements.

Facebook is not the only company in this mix as Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon are looking to know what you are feeling as well. I wonder if they can tell when you are pissed?



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Cool so how long till they become child pornagraphers because they end up recording kids changing in their room by accident.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
Well said.

Guess we are going to have to put tape over our cellphone cameras as well.
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How about printing a super tiny picture of ones ass and taping that face down on the camera. Maybe with the word kiss on one cheek and my on the other.
 
Bullshit, Facebook is interested in using itself as a spying agency for the Government. We're not stupid.

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Eh, I don't care. I don't have a web cam for my desktop and my laptop has tap over it's web cam. Plus, I don't do Facebook!
 
They're already doing that based on text postings; big firms do it on Twitter for brand reputation monitoring, and I've even heard of some investment funds measuring "animal spirits" via Twitter and other social media and making market momentum bets based on it. (Edit: Found it - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.09225.pdf)


And a gaming example:

http://fortune.com/2015/12/07/dataminr-hedge-funds-twitter-data/ said:
Irish research firm Eagle Alpha, for example, digested 7,416 comments on a Reddit gaming thread in October to predict that Electronic Arts would sell more of its new Star Wars videogame than it had projected; Electronic Arts soon raised its sales forecast, citing “excitement” over the game.
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TwistedAegis said:
They're already doing that based on text postings; big firms do it on Twitter for brand reputation monitoring, and I've even heard of some investment funds measuring "animal spirits" via Twitter and other social media and making market momentum bets based on it. (Edit: Found it - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.09225.pdf)


And a gaming example:
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Animal spirits? Like my Deer Wine?
 
TheHig said:
How about printing a super tiny picture of ones ass and taping that face down on the camera. Maybe with the word kiss on one cheek and my on the other.
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As much as that idea sounds nice, it won't work. Those cameras do not have the ability to image something that close. Plus there wouldn't be any light to 'illuminate' that shiney new ass picture.

5cm from the lens is about as near as it can go most of the time.
 
This is the internet in the year 2017, anyone under the age of 30 is depressed because somebody they didn't get enough retweets or likes. And anyone over the age of 30 but under the age of 80 is depressed because they remember the good old days that we will never have back. And most people over 80 just don't give a fuck as they will be dead soon anyway and just can't be bothered anymore to have emotions.
 
Exavior said:
This is the internet in the year 2017, anyone under the age of 30 is depressed because somebody they didn't get enough retweets or likes. And anyone over the age of 30 but under the age of 80 is depressed because they remember the good old days that we will never have back. And most people over 80 just don't give a fuck as they will be dead soon anyway and just can't be bothered anymore to have emotions.
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I wonder what they would think of me, seeing me laugh as I read articles like this.

They did that for likes...
 
"As revealed in a patent filing, Facebook is interested in using webcams and smartphone cameras to read our emotions, and track expressions and reactions. The idea is that by understanding emotional behaviour, Facebook can show us more of what we react positively to in our Facebook news feeds and less of what we do not - whether that's friends' holiday photos, or advertisements."

That paragraph if filled with so much absurdity, BS and "watch the hands", it almost over shadows its Orwellian controlling nature.
 
hey didn't facebook just get a man sentenced to death?

OH YEAH

they totally did.

fuck the zuck.
 
Exavior said:
This is the internet in the year 2017, anyone under the age of 30 is depressed because somebody they didn't get enough retweets or likes. And anyone over the age of 30 but under the age of 80 is depressed because they remember the good old days that we will never have back. And most people over 80 just don't give a fuck as they will be dead soon anyway and just can't be bothered anymore to have emotions.
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Woah now, no need for a blanket statement. I'm under 30 and couldn't give two shits about social media. I kinda wish we never made it past dumb phones.
 
Now that I think about it, this idea is just bad in general. Maybe some form of mind control?

If they can read your emotions and feed you news based on that, wouldn't that be a fertile ground for mind control via media, except this one is on a personal level rather than a general mass population.

I haven't delved into privacy issues, but it seems like things a heading towards cloud at record speed because a lot of these features requires mass data to give an accurate output (physiology especially amongst others), and requires centralised computing power your average device simply would not have. Plenty of computer research is going into this.
 
This season of Doctor Who had an episode about this. Members of a new world colony wore patches on their backs that displayed their current emotional state. It all went bad when the colony's robots killed everyone who didn't smile.
 
chenw said:
As much as that idea sounds nice, it won't work. Those cameras do not have the ability to image something that close. Plus there wouldn't be any light to 'illuminate' that shiney new ass picture.

5cm from the lens is about as near as it can go most of the time.
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Well there you go ruining my dreams with reality. Thanks. Lol
 
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