Meta has filed a patent for a system that records your voice and surroundings all day, then uses an AI to analyse your mood. The patent’s stated, theoretical goal is for Meta, a company that makes billions of dollars targeting ads at its users based on their data, is to sell users a wearable that tailors workouts for them based on whether they’re happy or sad.
Patentlyze first noticed the patent which was published on July 2 after Meta filed it back in December of 2025. The filing described an “apparatus” that surveilled a user and their surroundings constantly to craft a better workout. “The audible communications may be associated with contextual factors such as time of day, location, user activity, or digital interaction,” the patent said. “The audible communications may be transcribed, and an emotional-state machine learning model may interpret verbal and nonverbal cues to determine emotional indicators.”
According to the filing, Meta needs to know when a user laughs or sighs, where they are physically, and what objects they’re surrounded by. It would even like to know when you’ve taken your meds. “The AI assistant may listen to a user(s) at predefined times to hear various types of communication, such as sighs, laughter, and/or the tone(s) of a voice(s),” the patent said. “The AI assistant may use these inputs to quantify the user’s emotional state or generate other insights about the user […] in another example, the AI assistant may take multiple inputs in in addition to audio inputs (e.g., of a user’s voice) to provide a summary of emotional trends based on various inputs (e.g., a happier emotional state associated with a particular time of day or at a time when medication is taken, etc.).”
What kind of creepy engineers go to work for this company?
Very well paid ones… Until their core code and program are built, then they’ll layoff 80%of that team and keep a few green devs to maintain the code until finally outsourcing.
I guess money is all that matters anymore. No one has any scruples about building these creepy products.
A lot of these engineers get stuck in sisyphian goals where if they just work a little bit harder for a little bit longer they’ll get the boulder over the hill and finally “make it.” It’s not about the money; it’s the promise of early retirement and justifying the sacrifices they’ve made to get to this point in their careers. But yeah, part of the sacrifice is their morals.
You’ve really got to be stupid to buy something like this, and especially from Facebook.
Bet you anything they’re going to try to put it in phones, hell they probably already have.
This is one trying to take my job as a nurse. All I can say is, it ain’t gonna work. You’re never going to get an AI to ensure med compliance in bipolar and schizophrenia or get it to properly do affect and mood assessments for psych nursing. Might be useful for less high acuity cases that don’t require a nurse, but in those sort of outpatient cases the whole point is you don’t need this level of monitoring. I applaud the effort in reducing group home need for this population as well, but I also think that would be ineffective.
What will happen is they will sell it to your boss as a way to cut costs on labor, but will arrange things legally such that you are still responsible for the patients’ wellbeing, so if the AI makes a mistake you get the blame.
Nurses quit. Go to the reddit nursing sub and see how often they talk about quitting over dangers to their license. They get anxiety about nonsensical stuff regarding that because it’s beaten to us in nursing school. This, nobody’s going to accept.
Does that really need AI? The world is dystopian af, can’t it just declaratively assert “you are sad” and be right just about as often as some expensive inference operation?
It needs AI, but not LLM. A simple neural net for recognising expressions, what is still AI, runs on a phone.
My argument was one of stochasticism. A broken clock is right twice a day, but a machine that says to 100% of FB users “you aren’t happy” will be right more often than not.
I think this is the microphone spies coming out in the open. Google recently filed some similar creepy tech patent if I recall correctly. It’s the same scheme of recording all audio all day, and they would offer you a list of important things to remember or notes on the day.
I never believed in the past when the nay-sayers denied that them listening to our device’s microphones all day was feasible. I’d already seen too many instances of the audio spying being used to direct ad content to people. They are voice-printing us all from every available audio source. They already know when you say something in the presence of someone else’s phone.
People really have to break these chains of phone addiction, and just allowing them to do what they want on our phones.
“Why has the economy slowed down? Why aren’t people buying our new things?”
Dumb asses, absolute dumb asses.
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Already there my friend and have taken many more precaution as its getting worse and worse everyday.
Ignoring the main point of the article, there are a lot of people who need help taking their medication. A device that knows for sure whether they’ve taken their medication, and that will bug them to take it when they haven’t, could make a hige difference in their quality of living.
That much Big Brother spying activity is not necessary to achieve a similar goal. Combine a smart cap for pill bottles with an alarm reminder system. Smart pill bottle cap can show if the bottle has been opened that day or some such type of simple usage tracking. Alarm on the phone or watch, and/or something like that on their refrigerator for reminders.
