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> College officials stress that a machine, not a person, is listening in, “Okay, but that’s worse.” <https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/okay-but-thats-worse https

• pixl97 1y ago
  >that a machine Yea, I don't know where that idea came from. Maybe the Boomer generation when machines didn't have practically unlimited storage and internet access where that data then can be crawled over by countless algorithms to judge your life and how you'll live from now on.
  • aspenmayer 1y ago
    I think this kind of thinking must be the same kind that believes that bulk data collection isn't a "search" until the data is accessed by a human.
  • reginald78 1y ago
    The worst part is the algorithms don't even have to be correct. A ton of algorithms, designed to find transgressions, likely judged by purchasers by how many they find. Eventually they are relied upon and are standard for ass covering. But people don't understand how they work so give them a level of trust you wouldn't extend to a person doing the same task.
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• cgriswald 1y ago
  Not only is it worse, but I doubt it is even true in any meaningful sense. Even if the humans aren't 'listening in' and only the student gets the feedback directly, surely there are logs that contain at the very least metadata which a human can very much 'listen in' on and absent regulation with heavy penalties, will listen in on either individually or in aggregate and which could be hacked and sold.