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Could anything be more ironic, the employees that work to track every person in the world are now being tracked themselves :)
by jryan49 4mo ago
Could anything be more ironic, the employees that work to track every person in the world are now being tracked themselves :)
- iwontberude 4mo agoJust like all those drones we use on our adversaries. The next American civil war will definitely be fought with drones.
- foobar_______ 4mo agoPainful levels of irony. These people sit at their computer all day scheming and coding ways to grab any new bits of data they can with the intent of capturing everything they can about the user's friends, location, wealth, hobbies, etc. to push more targeted ads.
- jjulius 4mo agoI'm trying to have sympathy for those who work there and are opposed to this, but the irony is so thick that it's a struggle.
- I_am_tiberius 4mo agoI don't think they deserve your sympathy. I don't think there is an employee there that couldn't find another great job somewhere else.
- onlyrealcuzzo 4mo agoI'm interested what they're doing now that they weren't already doing before that has any value. These companies track a lot of what you do already - a decent percentage of which makes sense from a security perspective. I'm curious what could possibly be valuable that they weren't already tracking. Like... How are individual keystrokes and mouse movements more valuable than all the work you already do which is largely tracked at the right amount of value already??? I wonder how much of this is just them actively trying to get even more people to quit, with somehow zero concern for losing their actual talent in the process... All of MAG-7 is so desperate to shift R&D spending from salaries to CapEx for AI data centers, they'd literally watch ~90% of their talent go that provides ~99% of their actual valuable work in the process. And it's not because they're idiots that are completely oblivious to what's actually happening on the ground... It's their smug confidence that they can get away with anything and use their market positioning to force everyone to deal with their bad decisions no matter how disastrous they end up being... If our models end up sucking, so what, we'll just lobby congress to make open weight models illegal... If people don't like our pricing, oh well, we'll just lobby congress to force the government to pay for our products... If China or Europe does it better, oh well, we'll just lobby congress to label it national security and outlaw competition... Etc...
- gaiagraphia 4mo agoIf you look at idioms, human nature has never really changed. Most of our culture and outlook was defined by the Sumerians. "You reap what you sow".