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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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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've heard this is also the case for civilians and officers working for police departments who are responsible for handling evidence related to child abuse. Takes a lot of psychological support, which I'm not sure can ever be enough.

[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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…

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Many places like that have protocols for how long your shifts can be and how long you can do it, with constant psych support while you do it in order to reduce and mitigate the impact of the material. Meta may have been pushing their workers too hard and cutting corners.