Sounds like a really bad idea coming from the company that treated everyone's emotional health like a lab experiment with zero oversight or consent.

Companies need to learn that consumers are not their subjects or their property.

lol, good luck with my flat affect autism.

@madeindex good luck with that. It is entirely delusional to think that you can detect someone’s mood by how they sound or look. Or just plain stupid. I have hidden it very well and I have known others who do it way better than me because they can also smile. It is a futile endeavour. Worse than that it could lead to missing cases. That can be fatal. People should NEVER rely on technology to find out if someone needs help. Extremely irresponsible rubbish.

@madeindex @scream Aaaaaah!

@madeindexDear #Meta, here's mine: you suck.See, no patent required! 😂

It is bad enough when people read way too much into tone of voice. Don't need a clanker getting it wrong too.

How can I modulate my voice to convey that I think Facebook is loser shit so people stop using it?

Gonna need a new piece of software which blocks unwanted microphone surveillance.

In the most upbeat, jovial tone possible - "Go fuck yourself" :)

Don't call centers already have similar technology available?

As if I didn't hate job interviews enough already, looks like I'll be freelancing forever lol

I am sorry Dave, but I am afraid I can't let you do that. The inflection in your voice is troublesome.

My mood is always "depressed."

Patents and intellectual property laws are a cancer. How the fuck is this an "invention". You train an AI model to do this. Researchers at public universities probably created all the underlying technology and they just get to patent this and monopolize the market.

360 no-scope on autistic people tbh

I have my written tone read as 'angry' (or sometimes, passionate) just because of my formal word choice. It's angry if I'm pointing out something bad, and passionate if I'm sharing something good. Because it's not just meaning, its also being compared to everybody else's writing.

As it is, when people call my name, turns out if you say 'yes?' Or 'what's up?' in a completely neutral tone (because I'm concentrating on my task, not my performance).... the default interpretation is 'pissed'. So now that's another area I have to mask for others, even while I'm trying to work.

It's the same reason women talking like men seem like bitches. It's not about what you actually say or how you say it, it's being compared to how you're expected to behave. If we expect men to be forthright, and women to be diplomatic, then forthright women are bitches and diplomatic men are delicate.

Why? I can already tell them what most peoples moods are when interacting with Meta products.

Anger, frustration, hatred.

Good luck analyzing my monotone ass

Im always pissed off, and you should be to.

They've done shit like this for over a decade now.

The whole removing the natural news feed is just so they can fuck with your emotional state and serve ads to you when you're weak.

Throw in the whole Cambridge analyitica nonsense, and you essentially have mind control. I guess most people would compare it to more of a manipulative boyfriend who gas lights you into not seeing your friends. Still not a good look.

The tech already exists, though perhaps not specifically using LLMs, which seems like overkill except maybe to boost LLM sales. And adding an LLM will just make it make wrong guesses when the tone is not enough information to determine a specific mood. They could just be trying to create patents either defensively or to use to troll and tie up smaller competitors with existing tech in court, especially if they add LLMs to their tech to interpret results.

What is the novelty of that? Did they invent mood, voice tone, computers, or coding?

Also it's against the public good. So shouldn't be protected by gov't. We don't need Minority Report childish "tech" deciding how to censor, not only our speech, but our tone of voice?

Doubt this patent could stand up to scrutiny. Is this all Meta can come up with? They better stick to buying up companies.

To the upvoters. Why? Why do you think this is worthy of our time and attention?

I downvoted this article cuz this patent is unworthy of a post.

Mood detection has huge privacy implications.