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by soulofmischief 811 days ago
A fantastic example of why the inherent "lack" of one party in an economic exchange is a necessary component of modern capitalism.

The only people who would be willing to use such a service are people who have likely already been systematically disenfranchised by our global economic system. Poor people.

Privacy should not be incentivized and treated as a luxury. Especially when the end result of all this training data is models which further discriminate against vulnerable third-parties and automate maximum value extraction from the average user via unprecedented amounts of emotional manipulation afforded to us by the development of user-facing generative AI. Whether through highly-targeted, ad-hoc advertisements, or discriminative insurance policies.