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Eiko Fried
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research.
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Professor of Mental Health & Data Science at Leiden University. Studying mental health problems as systems (http://eiko-fried.com). Building an early warning system for depression (http://WARN-D.com).
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Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search 404media.co
How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea theguardian.com
‘Unprecedented’: OpenAI says AI models autonomously hacked another company aljazeera.com
I Built An App for Authors To Prove They Did Not Use AI To Write. verakurian.substack.com
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Looks like Starbucks used AI to create an incredibly problematic marketing campaign www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Right .. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...
Eiko Fried reposted
No disrespect intended to the author, but "Everyone should submit to voluntary keylogging surveillanceware on the blockchain to prove they're human" is not exactly the digital future I was hoping for in 1994.
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Had the privilege to give a #SAA2026 keynote today. Showed early results from WARN-D ML competition, & EMA'd the audience on how different parts of the data—Baseline, EMA, Wearables, & Followup—contributed to predicting depression onset, with live leaderboard & two prizes. Got 220 live responses:
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