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Key takeaways from He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can't fix its misinformation addiction

Three years ago, the company began building "responsible AI." This is the story of how it failed.

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The researcher’s team also found that users with a tendency to post or engage with melancholy content—a possible sign of depression—could easily spiral into consuming increasingly negative material that risked further worsening their mental health. The team proposed tweaking the content-ranking models for these users to stop maximizing engagement alone, so they would be shown less of the depressing stuff.

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