Lots of uses of “AI” are so people can deny responsibility. They feed in their history of discrimination, tell the machine to replicate it, then go, “it can’t be discriminatory, it’s an AI”

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Real name and face on the internet guy doesn’t get to have an opinion on tracking.

You being able to track engagement is bad, actually.

Yes, hence the constant efforts to create and enforce artificial scarcity, from DRM to NFTs.

And it’s not just software. The same ideology leads to locked dumpsters full of food behind grocery stores and shoes and coats cut open before they’re thrown away at the end of the season.

There is no ethical way to monetize software because the unethical thing is capitalism itself.

But this serves that core competence of spamming adverts at you

Any standard desktop linux is more private and secure than google spyware

Zombocom is better than twitter

It’s not just Microsoft, it’s capitalists in general.

For now. They’re boiling the frog slow.