Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al I remember “The camera panopticon” from about that time.
Just then I had worked on a social network a couple of years before, and it was very clear to me that if you don’t pay for a service, you may be a user, but you’re not the client, you’re the product.
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> Today, six years after that patent was granted, we can that this idea has progressed […]:
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>> Thousands of people catching trains in the #UnitedKingdom likely had their faces scanned by #Amazon software as part of widespread #AI trials, new documents reveal. The image recognition system was used to predict travelers’ age, gender, and potential emotions — with the suggestion that the data could be used in #advertising systems in the future.#Dystopia https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&%3Bq=dystopia&%3Biax=images&%3Bia=images
@smallcircles@social.coop @aral@mastodon.ar.al Yikes.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al I hadn’t seen it yet, glad you brought it back, can I use it in my lectures?
@catarinac@masto.pt Of course :)
Here’s a more recent one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r6k4
And there are many others; please feel free to use any of them – https://duckduckgo.com/?q=aral+balkan+talk
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Thank you!
@aral@mastodon.ar.al I wouldn’t have that thing or anything like it in my house. I can’t remember if it was Brave New World, or 1984, but there was a device in one of those stories that pretty much is an Alexa. Having a mobile phone is more than enough monitoring already. I don’t even use shop loyalty cards for the same reason.
In 1984 I believe they used a camera in the tv to monitor peoples activity, been a while since I read that
I believe you’re correct, but it has been 20 years since I read it myself.
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@aral I quit FB the day I saw this in 2014. Haven’t looked back since. Thank you Aral.
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