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nyxnars t1_ir0xhch wrote

>The momentum behind AI is building, thanks in part to the massive amounts of data that computers can gather about our likes, our purchases and our movements every day

Did you really just try to spin the theft of personal data as positive????

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StarTracks2001 t1_ir12dl5 wrote

I wouldn't call it theft. People agree to the privacy policies and proceed to post, like, share, link purchasing apps, etc with all these companies that just mine & sell your data to advertisers.

"If a service is free to use, you're the product."

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Rauleigh t1_ir1g8xu wrote

Yep and the fact that we live in a world where that is universal and almost unchallenged is freaky.

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Impossible_Cookie596 OP t1_ir0y1fb wrote

Story has nothing to do with personal data, i.e (it's just the statement.)

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nyxnars t1_ir0y9t3 wrote

>our likes, our purchases and our movements every

This is personal data

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Splatulance t1_ir13zsg wrote

That isn't what the position paper is about. It's another high level proposal for a general ai based loosely on cognitive and neuroscience re brain architecture. It has nothing to do with your search history/whatever, and frankly a quick skimmy glance suggests that it's hardly news

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[deleted] t1_ir0zues wrote

OP do you not understand what "personal data" is?

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xxxmsky t1_ir279b8 wrote

Honestly, there are positive sides to the lack of privacy control. We do get better services

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