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Can we use ai to judge emotional content of threads so I can get recommendations for threads where people are relaxed and happy?

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Actually yes and I donโ€™t think itโ€™s a bad idea. Sentiment analysis is not a hard task nowadays. If overused the site would become a bunch of artificial positivity, but I think there could be a place for this. Could be part of a mod toolkit too.

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Iโ€™d imagine if it uses the sentiment as a weight but not a gate when selecting what content to boost that would probably provide a good balance. Especially if you get some controls to adjust the weights in the settings panel

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I definitely donโ€™t think something like that should be used to only show one emotion though. If AI were used to control content based on how it makes people feel it should try to balance, not control how we feel. Give us an equal amount of everything.

Itโ€™s not good to cloak ourselves in only feelgood stories and lies that sound nice and ignore all the bad stuff just because an algorithm wants us to feel nice and cozy. If no one cares about the bad stuff, the bad stuff gets worse.

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Unironically, yes absolutely.

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Well then, I unironically want that!

Too much arguing in discussion forums and not enough relaxed fun.

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