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‘It scars you for life’: Workers sue Meta claiming viewing brutal videos caused psychological trauma::More than 20% of the staff Meta hired to check the violent content of Facebook and Instagram are on sick leave due to psychological trauma.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not every job is something humans are cut out for. This is a job AI should be taking off our plates.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But then who will give therapy to the AI?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the beauty of it. Each new instance of the AI has no prior memories, so the sorry devil gets to relive its first day on the job forever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it turns out the AI was sentient or was believed to be, that will lead to a huge mess.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 2 points 1 year ago

We know they are not. The only guy seriously working toward conscious AI that I know of is Jeff Hawkins

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We get an dedicated ai to monitor the wellbeing of the first ai. The moment it does something unexpected we pull the plug.

Though we dont know what effect that may have on ai 2 so we should probably get a third ai to…

[–] PrinzMegahertz 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So we train our AIs to hide their mental health?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Its what we do towards people and that has been working flawlessly with no side-effects /s

Context: “professional autist*

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh so it's just like normal employee training.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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