Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds

2026-07-09 14:38 UTC

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.).”

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@barbaramen@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 03:38

Going solely off the headline, I’m convinced a cartoon villain is the head of Meta. Combine this with the car surveillance, flock, and you’ll have to wake up and greet the AI, take your conforming pills, and let AI transport you to your designated work camp. Your meal will be dispensed if you have enough work credits and then go home and mind the curfew. Remember… Meta loves you and stay off the streets for your safety, Valued Asset!

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@FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 2026-07-10 06:21

Openai is trying to make some kind of full video and audio recording thing you keep in your house 24/7 too. These companies desperately need new data that’s not tampered by other ai bots, or maybe don’t contain verified humans. So they’re going to push for more and more useless internet of things assistance that do the same amount as nothing as siri, but now will be used in flock systems like walmart security feeds get fed in. But worse this will be in your home. Unfortunately anywhere data is sold, the US goverment either works directly with companies getting access to info without a warrant illegally, or your data is sold to data brokers which gets processed through one od the various three letter agencies who just buy all of it whole sale. Which gets around your rights to privacy, essentially on spying on you. Also Instagram just decided that you can now use their ai to make nudes of anyone like grok does by just @ing people. I really don’t understand why anyone still continues to use meta shit. Like legally everything you fed them is ultimiately just going to be used to make Ai porn of you and family. And if not now, soon. You are officially apart of the training data, and a bastardized version of your face is going show up in a ai generated meme about being a cuck or something immature and embaressing.

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