By Stevid
There is a mind-side to the mental health problem of social media. This should at least be expressed, as an approach to safety, while other technical interventions proceed. So far, every adjustment that has been made by social media companies, as well as AI chatbot companies to mitigate mental health effects have been technical. They include age-restrictions, time-limits, alert to someone else, tracking of usage patterns and so forth. While these are helpful, whatever time is used on the app is still opaque for users to know what the mind is doing. So, providing a dynamic flowchart, as a form of conceptual neuroimaging, would express and estimate risks and extents.
It is postulated that the human mind consists of destinations and relays. Destinations are stations where information mostly reside. Relays are the transportation between those destinations.
Functions can be assumed to be at destinations. Functions are mostly categorized as memory, emotion, feeling and regulation of internal senses. These categories have several subcategories. Relays go between and across categories.
It is possible to use this model, to express parallels of what social media contents are doing to the mind, especially regarding addictiveness and mental health effects.
Social media contents are interpreted in memory. But they relay to emotion and feeling areas. These is where the subcategories craving, pleasure, fear, hate, love, trauma, anger, and the rest precipitate.
Now, having a dynamic flowchart as a pop-up, where content summaries can fit, and then show how the mind might be moving, can express to users, the exposure to temporal or lasting effect or even intensity in the moment.
This can also provide a summary after a usage session, with tips for the next. It can quickly recommend on what to quickly scroll past the next time or what to avoid and so forth.
The objective is to ensure that the mind is shown, to give users a better caveat of what is obtainable, helping regulators, social media companies, guides and so forth, to keep the knowledge of risks closer, than the current unknown.
It is possible to develop this into a product that will be applied across social media apps, within a month. It could be ready by September 14, 2026.
There will be a free tier and a subscription tier. The free tier could be subsidized by social media companies, school districts, states, and others to have but will have a few destinations and relays, while the subscription tier will have details in subcategories of the functions of mind and so forth.
The product can shape the future for users, even as the trend is changing with lots of lawsuits and settlements across jurisdictions, social media companies, AI chatbot companies against AI delusion and AI psychosis.
Mind safety compliance is based on electrochemical psychiatry. A division of conceptual brain science. Conceptual brain science defines the human mind by electrical and chemical signals. In empirical neuroscience, what can be proven is that electrical and chemical signals are responsible in functions. Also, in psychiatry most therapies target for electrical signals or for chemical signals. So, conceptual brain science basis the mind on electrical and chemical signals.
Conceptually, the human mind is the collection of all the electrical and chemical signals, with their interactions and attributes, in sets, in clusters of neurons, across the central and peripheral nervous systems. Simply, the human mind is the sets of signals.
A memory is a specific configuration or formation of electrical and chemical signals in a set. The same applies to an emotion, a feeling and the regulation of an internal signal.
Simply, functions like these are a result of interactions of signals, for specificity in configurations.
The dynamic flowchart is a simple presentation of this. It is predicated on the postulate in Conceptual Biomarkers and Theoretical Biological Factors for Psychiatric and Intelligence Nosology.
There is a recent report on Variety, TikTok to Pay $400 Million to U.S. Government to Settle Lawsuit Alleging App Violated Child-Safety Law, stating that, “TikTok, the company behind the namesake popular short-form video app, has agreed to pay $400 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit alleging it violated the country’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).”
“The Justice Department announced the settlement with TikTok and China-based ByteDance on Friday. Under the terms of the agreement, TikTok will pay $300 million immediately to the U.S. government and an additional $100 million “upon entry of an order vacating a prior consent decree entered against TikTok’s predecessor, Musical.ly,” the DOJ said.”
“The lawsuit was filed during the Biden administration in August 2024, when the DOJ, together with the FTC, sued TikTok and ByteDance in California federal court, alleging that TikTok “knowingly permitted children to create regular TikTok accounts and to create, view and share short-form videos and messages with adults and others on the regular TikTok platform.””
“In 2019, TikTok agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle FTC allegations that its predecessor app, Musical.ly, illegally collected personal info from children in violation of COPPA. The agency said at the time it was the largest civil penalty ever obtained in a children’s privacy case.”
There is another recent story on Tech Xplore, Some of Meta’s safety tools were ‘designed to fail’: Witness, stating that, “A former employee testified Wednesday that some of Meta’s safety tools for Facebook and Instagram were “designed to fail,” contradicting the company’s defense strategy in a landmark trial in California. For a second day, Meta is fending off accusations by a coalition of U.S. states that it deliberately designed its products to hook children and gather their data while misleading the public.”
“Many experts have called this trial social media’s “big tobacco moment,” referring to a blockbuster settlement between tobacco companies in the United States and dozens of states in the 1990s, which led to billions of dollars in penalties and changes to how products were marketed.”
“Similarly, dozens of states are once again intervening where “Congress failed to act,” Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said Tuesday afternoon.”