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So how many more rounds of this cycle do we need before we leverage the letter of the law to say that maybe companies shouldn't be allowed to blatantly exploit
by ToucanLoucan 3y ago
So how many more rounds of this cycle do we need before we leverage the letter of the law to say that maybe companies shouldn't be allowed to blatantly exploit people's vulnerability and isolation to make money? Or is your vulnerability to exploitation still the justification for your exploitation in the tech space?
- jayrot 3y agoTwo or three. Four max. Maybe five.
- glitchc 3y agoI don't know if humanity can function without the ability for humans to exploit each other.
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoMaybe we should try? You know, mix things up a little? Variety is the spice of life after all.
- glitchc 3y agoWe do keep trying and it keeps failing. It's a nice idea but it goes against our base instincts. Ultimately, we evolved to survive, and those survival traits urge us to do better, acquire more, strengthen our position, all of which happens at the expense of others also doing the same. This will continue at least as long as goods are scarce. After that, who knows?
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoCompetition and exploitation are subtly different. e.g. the nutrition facts and ingredients list on food in the USA is a big win, and I wish we pushed it even harder like Europe has. I wish makeup had to list its ingredients too. If you have any dietary restrictions, at a restaurant you have to put faith in a bunch of overworked teenagers, with boxed food you have a rough idea what's actually in it.
- glitchc 3y agoAgreed. This may be a consequence of the environment we've created, where corporations are allowed to behave like humans and compete with each other. In their competition, they end up exploiting us. We are a resource to them, after all, and any competition exploits some form of resource.
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoScarcity isn't equally applied though. The wealthy suffer zero scarcity of basically any resource, they can have (and do have) whatever they want at any time more or less, up to and including multiple ridiculously massive homes, yachts, and incredibly expensive cars, jets, and all the fuel and power they need for those aforementioned things. Scarcity for people in the developed world is largely an artificial construct: we have far more than we need of basically all resources here, plus or minus some failures that can be largely placed on either remaining issues from the pandemic, or just-in-time supply chains which have been a disaster for distribution in the States. The real scarcity is money, with it pooling at the top and rarely making it's way down, now doubly so that inflation is slowly destroying what's left of the middle class and demolishing the people below them. Lastly you have actual scarcity which is a consequence of the above over-resourcing-and-under-utilizing of the developed world, which occurs in the developing world. We ship tremendous amounts of basically every resource to wealthy nations, where a not-insubstantial amount of said resources are bound straight for landfill because of the aforementioned over-consumption and over-availability. This is a complicated topic and even in this brief summary I've had to omit a ton of details, but I think it's safe to say that the base instinctual level of "we need to survive" is frankly, not applicable here. The vast majority of social harms performed with this as the citation is not "I'm worried I can't make next month's rent if I don't sell enough AI girlfriends" scarcity, but I think far more in line with "we have to maintain year-over-year growth or I'll only get a 40% bonus instead of a 60% bonus this year, and if that means a ton of chronically lonely and depressed people need to be data-mined even harder this quarter, then that's what it means."
- philip1209 3y agoHasn't happened so far with social media.
- u32480932048 3y agoBut it helps with Spongebob rainbow hands MENTAL HEALTH
- gadders 3y agoDoes that include p0rn?
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoYes privacy laws should definitely protect the identity of porn viewers. I have some very embarrassing fetishes, and everyone knows that half of IT workers are furries.
- gadders 3y ago>>half of IT workers are furries. Only the bottom half though so they can cosplay as fawns.
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoHalf seems quite conservative based on my experiences to be honest.
- doubled112 3y agoI've been at this 10+ years and I've never met a furry. Then I realized I've never asked, so how would I know? First day: Hi, nice to meet you. Simon, Bill and James are furries, welcome to the team! Not likely. Now I'm going to keep an eye out.
- almatabata 3y agoIt is a good question. Not exactly porn per say but what is the difference between a human onlyfans model selling human interaction and a company selling access to an AI model? In the end you are exploiting somebodies need for intimacy.
- dylan604 3y agoWould this apply to psychology/psychiatry/therapy too?
- charlie0 3y agoThat one online help company got hacked, so even assuming they aren't malicious, having all that personal psych data under one roof makes them a juicy target.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoThat'd be great. My therapist doesn't put her notes into an EMR or anything, so there's no data warehouse where my credit card, legal name, SSN, and personal nightmares all live in the same SQL row.
- 15457345234 3y agoIf you matter they'll just burgle her office
- pavel_lishin 3y agoIf you matter to a sufficiently powerful enemy, realistically you're screwed almost no matter what you do. There's only so many precautions you can take, short of joining a group of Bedouins who agree to keep you hidden for the rest of your life, or perhaps fleeing to the depths of the Amazon.
- germinalphrase 3y agoTo bill insurance, most (all?) therapists are required to provide Diagnostic Assessments. Many also use purpose built software tools for session notes. Your therapist may not do this, but I would argue the vast majority are indeed putting highly confidential client information in a digital record of some kind.
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