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> Lessons learnt for both Apple and Google in recent weeks then. If you want to turn our phones into AI-fueled machines, then let us know what you’re doing befo
by neilv 2y ago
> Lessons learnt for both Apple and Google in recent weeks then. If you want to turn our phones into AI-fueled machines, then let us know what you’re doing before you do it, and give us the opportunity to say yes or no. Otherwise it fuels fear of the unknown. And if AI is to bed down on our smartphones with access to all our apps and data, then it needs to establish high trust bars and stick to them rigidly.
Is that really a lesson learnt?
Didn't Google already know what the reaction would be, before they consciously (given it's a significant launch) decided to do it that way?
Why would they care about a little blogger noise?
- amelius 2y agoLesson learnt, way back: it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
- jajko 2y agoForgiveness? Thats a wrong term here and inapplicable. Loss of trust is the topic, you don't simply ask for forgiveness if you mess up, you work your ass off with building that trust again over lengthy period of time. And even then its not 100% back, trust is a finicky thing. This leads to loss of revenue, maybe small maybe not. Ie if google is paired with some mentality and/or actions of current US government, US phones and all internet-enabled electronic products everywhere outside of US should be viewed with same scrutiny Huawei was treated previously, with very similar actions.
- mahirsaid 2y agofacebook 2000's
- fazeirony 2y agoi can't wait for the "there's been confusion about what we've done" message to come out. cuz its always us, right? the customer is always wrong in this era of techno-feudalism.
- dingnuts 2y agoyou're not the customer! YOU'RE THE PRODUCT!
- mannykannot 2y agoIndeed, but lip service is grudgingly paid to the notion that we are not, lest we succumb to the delusion that we know what's good for us.
- philipov 2y agoThe customer is always wrong because the customer is too small to matter. Google's scale gives them all the power in the relationship, undermining the market's role in forcing them to compromise in negotions. We would need something like consumer unions that can collectively bargain on behalf of customers to offset this power imbalance. Or, antitrust laws that can break them into smaller units, recognizing that strict monopoly is not the only market failure scenario. That would be good too.
- 542354234235 2y ago>consumer unions that can collectively bargain on behalf of customers I think that is just called "government".
- CamperBob2 2y agoWhich is too easily captured by malevolent interests.
- philipov 2y ago"'Government is bad because it can be captured by malevolent interests', say malevolent interests involved in capturing government."
- CamperBob2 2y ago