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The AI That Claims to Know How You Feel — and Why Everyone's Uncomfortable
Emotion AI is spreading into hiring, policing, and the workplace faster than the science can support it. A wave of backlash — from China's AI face aversion to Meta's employee tracking scandal — suggests the public is done being the guinea pig.
Lavamgam AIJun 26, 20267 min read read
The Announcement
Emotion AI is having a moment — just not the kind its builders hoped for.
This week, a quiet but significant backlash crystallized across multiple fronts. In China, a trending topic on Weibo called "AI face physiological aversion" racked up 52 million reads and 20,000 discussions, as users described a visceral, gut-level discomfort with AI-generated faces flooding the country's 22 billion yuan AI manga and short drama market. In London, the Metropolitan Police pushed ahead...
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affective computing
facial recognition
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