[cynicalsecurity]

Welcome to a brave new world of digital fascism and mass surveillance.

Why does every message have to be scanned with AI? Since when WeChat behaviour has become an example for the Western social media?

You don't scan all user private messages with AI, you give your users a report button which they can press if they don't like a message. Only then you can take any other measures. That's is.

[KetoManx64]

How is Microsoft going to train their new AI models without using all your chats as part of the training data though? If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product.. And LinkedIn is "free" as in beer.

[psychoslave]

Rather free as super salted bretzel and drinks are available to buy, tightly tied to the only store still running in the global town: we may never have to subscribe for a paid account, but LinkedIn clearly is pushing for many features only available if we pay.

As wage slaves, of course we are products right from the start. So on that side at least it conceptually aligns that we are LinkedIn products.

[anitil]

> Why does every message have to be scanned with AI?

To answer this question honestly - I would assume that the service owners don't want to get pulled in front of a congressional inquiry about why their service isn't doing anything to prevent the distribution of child abuse material.

[bitcharmer]

I agree with you but please don't throw the term fascism left and right to refer to things you disagree with. The word's meaning is already twisted and diluted to the point of uselessness.

I grew up in a communist regime and can assure you tyranical censorship is not exclusive to fascism nor its sole defining part.

[heisenbit]

And how on earth can Microsoft AI question the appropriateness of a video which was greenlit by Google Youtube AI? It makes my AI head spin.

[nottorp]

They're competitors :)