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People struggling with their mental health are more likely to browse negative content online, and in turn, that negative content makes their symptoms worse, according to a series of studies by researchers at MIT. The group behind the research has developed a web plug-in tool to help those looking to protect their mental health make more informed decisions about the content they view.

The findings were outlined in an open-access paper by Tali Sharot, an adjunct professor of cognitive neurosciences at MIT and professor at University College London, and Christopher A. Kelly, a former visiting PhD student who was a member of Sharot’s Affective Brain Lab when the studies were conducted, who is now a postdoc at Stanford University’s Institute for Human Centered AI.

Google says its new AI model family has a curious feature: the ability to “identify” emotions. Announced last Thursday, the PaliGemma 2 family of models can analyze images, enabling the AI to generate captions and answer questions about people it “sees” in photos. Experts TechCrunch spoke with were alarmed at the prospect of an openly available emotion detector.

“This is very troubling to me,” Sandra Wachter, a professor in data ethics and AI at the Oxford Internet Institute, told TechCrunch. “I find it problematic to assume that we can ‘read’ people’s emotions. It’s like asking a Magic 8 Ball for advice.”

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