Suicide Intervention By Google

[TiredHorse]

A little paranoia goes a long way: Google is upping their game on suicide surveilance.

"...what's essential to being a good gatekeeper is agency—stepping forward and intervening if something's wrong." That's used in a limited context in this article, but how long will it be before the sentiment is expressed more strongly and more generally against us all?

The AI That Could Help Curb Youth Suicide

For many reasons, parents and teachers may fail to intervene when they spot LGBTQ teens in trouble. Can Google help?

www.theatlantic.com

Also, of course: "Public-health initiatives in Canada and the U.K. mine social-media data to predict suicide risk. Facebook uses AI to quickly flag live videos to police if algorithms detect self-harm or violence."

Anyone not already aware of and using DuckDuckGo as a replacement for Google would do well to check it out. And for those of the community here using Gmail, be very cautious what you put in your emails.

 

[AnnaJaspers]

I can't believe this is the surveillance world we live in...

 

[TAW122]

Thanks @TiredHorse for the heads up and yes, it looks like things are progressively getting more tight when it comes to society digging their heels even deeper in suicide prevention and anti-choice. I hope I won't be alive when the comes where the technology to read and/or predict thoughts and thought crimes (live) becomes a thing. That would be a ultra Orwellian world we live in (if this wasn't already bad enough).

 

[not_a_robot]

I can't believe this is the surveillance world we live in...

Removing the possibility of any human ever being capable of a private thought or action is necessary for the Singularity to become conscious as a larger organism. We are all just neurons in a larger organism. This has to happen. Our Panopticon is the inner eye through which the world will see Itself.

Glad I'll be dead soon. Soon, eternal life will be real and an obligation, not a choice.

 

[Retched]

Soon, eternal life will be real and an obligation, not a choice.

Shuddering at the mere thought! Back in the day I thought vampires were sexy and cool. No, not the glitter ones. But how exhausting. I guess helping destroy humanity is fulfilling, but eternal existence on earth. Bleh.

 

[not_a_robot]

Shuddering at the mere thought! Back in the day I thought vampires were sexy and cool. No, not the glitter ones. But how exhausting. I guess helping destroy humanity is fulfilling, but eternal existence on earth. Bleh.

I think I would love immortality; freedom from fear of disease and death would make life very different.
Knowing I was going to outlive everybody would make society easier to deal with (sorry but it would).
Only in the sexy vampire way though. The digital immortality that is coming will be a dystopian nightmare on many levels.

 

[Retched]

I think I would love immortality; freedom from fear of disease and death would make life very different.
Knowing I was going to outlive everybody would make society easier to deal with (sorry but it would).

If I caught immortality now, it may be ok. But I would have preferred my 20s body.

A little paranoia goes a long way: Google is upping their game on suicide surveilance.

"...what's essential to being a good gatekeeper is agency—stepping forward and intervening if something's wrong." That's used in a limited context in this article, but how long will it be before the sentiment is expressed more strongly and more generally against us all?

The AI That Could Help Curb Youth Suicide

For many reasons, parents and teachers may fail to intervene when they spot LGBTQ teens in trouble. Can Google help?

www.theatlantic.com

Also, of course: "Public-health initiatives in Canada and the U.K. mine social-media data to predict suicide risk. Facebook uses AI to quickly flag live videos to police if algorithms detect self-harm or violence."

Anyone not already aware of and using DuckDuckGo as a replacement for Google would do well to check it out. And for those of the community here using Gmail, be very cautious what you put in your emails.

I wonder what someone would think of my browsing history last year with my obsession with ctb methods. Most done on google. Anymore, we have so little privacy, it's ridiculous.

 

[Bagger]

So it will get worse than that? This is the shit I daily see in Google searches. Does these bs hotlines ever helped anyone?

 

[jake3d]

I can't believe this is the surveillance world we live in...

To quote our regretted @Bubble, "2019 stop the world I want off."

Either WW3 or George Orwell's 1984 are going to be a reality soon, and boy am I glad I won't live to see either.