Meta's Patent for Continuous AI Emotional Monitoring via Voice and Biometrics

Meta has filed a patent for an AI system capable of continuously analyzing voice, biometric, and device usage data to track emotional states, with potential implications for privacy and regulatory scrutiny. The technology, which includes real-time emotional profiling and workout coaching, builds on previous attempts like Amazon's Halo, but faces challenges due to evolving AI regulations.

Meta has filed a patent application for an AI that listens to your voice throughout the day, works out how it thinks you are feeling from the way you sound, and keeps a timestamped log of every read.

Each read gets pinned to the moment it happened: the time, your location, what you were doing, even how you were using your phone. Some versions in the filing would listen all day; others would

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