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John Deschner's avatar

On the topic of Muslim Pro - we have to shift our thinking and beliefs around free platforms. If the product is free, you are the product.

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Black Lodges's avatar

most definitely - the point I was trying to make, and apologies if that was unclear, is the repercussions of THAT data being sold to the US army- that data gets sold, that's a fact

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John Deschner's avatar

Absolutely man. It's actively frightening to think about the potential of giant data pools being combined, enriched, and analyzed by smart AI. The only safe behavior will be boring.

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Black Lodges's avatar

absolutely, and it is happening already. no one is asking who is writing the codes for these AI's, what their ethical bias is etc - and the sheer fact that this is happening is fucking unethical in the first place. this transparent citizen nonsense is pure evil and pandoras box for major abuse.

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Josh Gomby's avatar

Speaking of amoral tech ventures that are designed with nothing but abuse in mind: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

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