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Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person by imglorp on Friday March 09, 2018 @10:19AM (#16552284)
> won't see a dime of it

It's a business relationship. They provide you with search, entertainment, mail, maps, docs. You provide them with samples of human behavior and with supervised training data.

Is it worth 5 seconds of your time to help them train their neural net, in exchange for access to their services?

Should our answers change if instead of Google or FB, it was Lockheed Martin or General Dynamics?

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Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person by kennywinker on Friday March 09, 2018 @11:39AM (#16552905)
Depends on if that nueral net is being used to digitize old books to make them searchable, or to help a government’s military automate killing other humans.
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Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person by dmitriid on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:34PM (#16553334)
If you don’t pay for a service, you are the product.

Never for a second believe that what you have with Google is a business relationship. As far as analogies go, you are the cow, and they provide you with a feeder and a shed.

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