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X's recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users' job and education history, Bloomberg spotted

Big techs’ have forgotten that social media is for people to interact and connect.

Our data belongs to us, and no one has the right to use it without permission.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    2 years ago

    How useful would an AI model be if it were trained on the content from a social media platform full of nazis, russian trolls, and bots?

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      13·
      2 years ago

      Didn’t we kinda see this happen already? I don’t remember which product it was. Was it one of Microsofts trial runs?

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        31·
        2 years ago

        Hey! You must be new to the internet. Here’s a tip:

        Just because someone says something is debunked - even if that someone had a YouTube channel with a ton of followers - doesn’t mean it’s actually debunked. People do, in fact, just go on the internet and tell lies, and it’s pretty common.

          • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            41·
            2 years ago

            Oh, that’s not what I’m saying.

            I’m saying you’re spreading nonsense propaganda and are pushing an agenda that effectively enables Russian military adventurism and imperialism/nationalism, and I’m calling you out on it. I was just being a bit oblique about it. But I can be direct, too.

              • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                31·
                2 years ago

                I am not insinuating that the US is some paragon of virtue and blameless, nor was I trying to.

                I am saying that you’re falling into the same trap you’re trying to say I fell into, only from the other side.

                But from the looks of your second paragraph, you’re just a tankie, so this conversation is clearly not going to go anywhere.

  • Jat620DH27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    “Just public data, not DMs or anything private,” huh?

    Obviously Elon Musk considers everything we post on Twitter as his personal wealth… It’s true though, since all our personal data is stored on his servers, and he can scrape whatever he wants.

    It’s time to step into a decentralized peer-to-peer social media where we will no longer be exploited by Twitter, Facebook, or whatever platform, and there are no more central servers to gather your data without consent.

    • dilan@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      True, and Anonymity is important as well, I am suppose to recommend Mastodon, etc. But they do require Email address as an identity verification.

      Nostr https://www.nostrapps.com/ or WireMin http://wiremin.org/

      Both of them are decentralized social media, and does not require personal info to register.

  • shotgun_crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    If the data is public, can’t anyone use it to train anyway? (besides rate limits to get the actual data, of course)

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    I see this as a challenge to the fediverse? Our platforms are open and amenable to being used for AI training. Mastodon is full of human made image descriptions, some of them quite detailed.

    Does the fediverse want to do anything different? Closed / private / human only spaces?