New AI Model Detects Mental Disorders Based on Web Posts
At the 20th International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Dartmouth researchers unveiled an artificial intelligence model for detecting mental disorders using conversations on Reddit.
The research is “part of an emerging wave of screening tools that use computers to analyze social media posts and gain an insight into people’s mental states”, reports TechXplore.
In a nutshell, the “AI model detects mental disorders based on web posts.’
One of the paper’s co-authors says “social media offers an easy way to tap into people’s behaviors.”
Another benefit to using it is that the data is not only public, but was voluntarily published.
The new AI model is described as the best in its class because it is able to focus on emotions rather than the specific content of the media texts being analyzed.
Technology, surveillance and big tech have always walked a fine line between legal and illegal.
The co-author says there are many reasons why people with mental health disorders may not want to seek help.
Reasons such as stigma, high costs, and lack of access to services. But, the co-author adds that it’s possible with some prompting, those individuals will seek some help.
That’s where the issue can go down a slippery slope.
The researchers “trained their model to label the emotions expressed in users’ posts and formed “a matrix that would show how likely it was that a user went from any one state to another, such as from anger to a neutral state of no emotion.”
Each emotional disorder has its own patterns of emotional transitions.
Therefore, an emotional “fingerprint” for a user is created and compared to emotional disorders.
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Editor’s note: What’s the betting this technology would be used to class climate and/or virus skeptics as being mentally ill?
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model for detecting mental disorders using conversations on Reddit.
Reddit is a baseline for the whole planet is it? Give me strength.
“The new AI model is described as the best in its class because it is able to focus on emotions rather than the specific content of the media texts being analyzed.”
“Each emotional disorder has its own patterns of emotional transitions.”
So perhaps a particular individual, or set of individuals are quite sensitive, and make mistakes, or speak out of turn? You may know that taunting is a particular past-time of certain people with a keyboard, so when directed at these ‘sensitives’ would likely cause an emotional reaction, but because the software (which is only at best, as ‘intelligent’ as the person who wrote it, and in this case apparently written by somebody with no clue) does not address context or conditions, this would be seen by the silly model as a mental problem where none exists? And what is the recommendation in that case anyway? The AI beats a trained seasoned professional perhaps?
Sounds like more from the 1984 workbook.
“Therefore, an emotional “fingerprint” for a user is created and compared to emotional disorders.”
“a matrix that would show how likely it was that a user went from any one state to another, such as from anger to a neutral state of no emotion.”
Just more ‘jobs for the boys’ rubbish glorified as A.I..
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This is where they all fail.
“from anger to a neutral state of no emotion.”
Emotion is ever-present. There is no neutral state. We are living beings, not a software program running in a loop waiting for input, to produce a response.
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and it’s even funnier
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-03-02
“We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“socratic research” can never be implemented on a computer.
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For sure.
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Tom
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LMAO…I/A is the guy with a mental disorder because it is programmed by insane humans and can never think outside the little box it sits in.
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