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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] 22 points 1 year ago (10 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 (7 children)

But then who will give therapy to the AI?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 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

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