Re:Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on thei...
by noman-land on Friday October 04, 2024 @03:28PM
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You just need to swap out some nouns and the offense will become more obvious.
"How is that chair working 'against' you by collecting 'non-personal' sitting patterns tagged with timestamps and information about the chair and house that it's in while the purpose of that data collection 'usually' is making the chair better for other people?"
When I use a product, I'm not implicitly inviting the makers of that product to perpetually monitor my usage of the product so that they can make more money based on my data. In any other part of life other than software, this would be an obscene assumption for a product maker to make. But in software, people give it a pass.
No.
This type of data collection is obscene when informed consent is not clearly and authoritatively acquired in advance.
"How is that chair working 'against' you by collecting 'non-personal' sitting patterns tagged with timestamps and information about the chair and house that it's in while the purpose of that data collection 'usually' is making the chair better for other people?"
When I use a product, I'm not implicitly inviting the makers of that product to perpetually monitor my usage of the product so that they can make more money based on my data. In any other part of life other than software, this would be an obscene assumption for a product maker to make. But in software, people give it a pass.
No.
This type of data collection is obscene when informed consent is not clearly and authoritatively acquired in advance.