Summary:
«IT’S EASY TO do bad things with Facebook data. From targeting ads for bizarrely specific T-shirts to manipulating an electorate, the questionable purposes to which the social media behemoth can be put are numerous. But there are also some people out there trying to use Facebook for good—or, at least, to improve the diagnosis of mental illness. On December 3, a group of researchers reported that they had managed to predict psychiatric diagnoses with Facebook data—using messages sent up to 18 months before a user received an official diagnosis.”
Article written by Grace Huckins
14|12|2020
Source:
WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/an-ai-used-facebook-data-to-predict-mental-illness/