Isn’t it easier to just assume everyone is depressed in 2025?
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
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Yes but if you don't look miserable you are hiding it.
A system like that can claim 95% accuracy by just saying "yes" always
Perfect, we can now detect at what level to hold the populous so they'll keep working, and not revolt.
Brother, I think you are depressed.
Correct, please send this one to the Emotional Recalibration Camp as soon as possible.
If you’re a good little citizen, they might even teach you how to concentrate while you’re at camp!
Wait. No stop I DIDN’T MEA-
I recall reading that one application of sentiment analysis in voice recognition
like, determining what a speaker's mood is
is that if someone gets upset on a call talking to a computer, the system will route them to a human.
Assumptions like these tend to go wrong for neurodivergent groups.
As suspected, this paper is based upon Paul Ekman's Facial Action Coding System, better known as micro-expressions.
This controversial literature borderlines on pseudo-science, with Ekman's work having significant conflicts of interest in the form of undisclosed funding from US defence, police, and border control, who wanted Ekman to create systems that can detect lies based on supposed micro expressions. Subsequent independent meta analyses have found that micro expressions cannot be consistently read, even by Ekman's own researchers.
Unfortunately, despite this, world governments have poured millions of dollars into private contractors to develop AI systems based on this flawed research for border control.
Munecat's video essay on debunking body language experts goes into much greater detail:
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Plot twist - it was the AI that is making the students depressed in the first place.
i wouldnt use AI to diagnose any illnesses, its worst than using webmd.