• TheFriar@lemm.ee
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    Well, if you read the article, you’ll see that’s exactly what is happening. Every company you can imagine is investing the GDP of smaller nations into AI. Google, Facebook, Microsoft. AI isn’t the future of humanity. It’s the future of capitalist interests. It’s the future of profit chasing. It’s the future of human misery. Tech companies have trampled all over human happiness and sanity to make a buck. And with the way surveillance capitalism is moving—facial recognition being integrated into insane places, like the M&M vending machine, the huge market for our most personal, revealing data—these could literally be two horsemen of the apocalypse.

    Advancements in tech haven’t helped us as humans in while. But they sure did streamline profit centers. We have to wrest control of our future back from corporate America because this plutocracy driven by these people is very, very fucking dangerous.

    AI is not the future for us. It’s the future for them. Our jobs getting “streamlined” will not mean the end of work and the rise of UBI. It will mean stronger, more invasive corporations wielding more power than ever while more and more people suffer, are cast out and told they’re just not working hard enough.

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        Dude! I bought some Bose headphones that were amazing. But I read over the privacy policy and they wanted to “map my head movements” and they wanted permission to passively listen to audio sent through the speakers and any audio around the microphone.

        I ran those fuckers back to the store as quickly as possible.

        But not before having to duck and dodge agreeing to the privacy policy in their app, so I quickly deleted it. But when I started interacting with their customer service, they tried to get me to sign a different privacy policy that seemed formulated just for the information shared in the chat, but in two separate addenda I had to dig through, I saw they were tryin to get me to sign the original super invasive privacy policy.

        Fuck Bose. Fuck all these fake fronts for surveillance capitalism. Fuck capitalism.

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          8 months ago

          it’s bizarre without context, but i recognise what they mean - Sony’s headphones app suggests you send them photos of your ears so they can analyse the shape to improve the noise cancellation.

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            8 months ago

            Which I don’t think has anything to do with GenAI. Though, I admit I’m not well educated in ear scanning and 3D audio reconstruction, so good sources are appreciated.

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          I think the claim is that they can use AI to improve the sound of their headphones if you supply them with images of your ears. I just dont like them having a database of personally identifying information like that.

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      8 months ago

      What worries me is how much of the AI criticism on Lemmy wants to make everything worse; not share the gains more equally. If that’s what passes for left today, well…

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        8 months ago

        I don’t have a problem with machine learning. I have a problem with one company getting x trillion dollars investment. Who pays when the investors want their returns? Eventually it’s going to be all of us.