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[yvannairie]

I woke up absolutely goddamn confused over the news about how Microsoft and Amazon have employees going through written/audio data for improving recognition and this is apparently considered a breach of privacy by some.

Because like... no shit they're doing that, how do people think handwriting recognition works?? How do they think image/audio recognition is trained? Of course there's The Eventual Human who looks at that data and explains to the computer what it means.

Information doesn't come out of nowhere, and I'm frankly surprised people are surprised by this.

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[yvannairie]

Like what did people think "retaining anonymous data for analysis" means?

"This service that uses your voice and face to function has its employees look at your face and listen to your voice."

[cimorene]

lol @ paying money for the privilege of turning all your money over to one of the 5 or so biggest and evilest information tech companies in the world and then later getting all upset about privacy.