Surveillance Capitalism
- “There’s no way to make these systems without human labor at the level of informing the ground truth of the data — reinforcement learning with human feedback, which again is just kind of tech-washing precarious human labor. It’s thousands and thousands of workers paid very little, though en masse it’s very expensive, and there’s no other way to cre... See more
from Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' | TechCrunch by Devin Coldewey
Faith Hahn added 1y ago
- Streaming sites have thus transformed into enterprises whose business is not limited to the sale of music-related services, but relies increasingly upon the collection, aggregation, and exchange of user data. A key issue this article pursues concerns the changing status of music within the commercial strategies of online streaming. While previous r... See more
from Music as a Technology of Surveillance by Eric Drott
Faith Hahn added 1y ago
- But this Google trial? By far the most important moment was when Judge Mehta denied a third-party motion to broadcast a publicly accessible audio feed of the trial for fear that information Google wishes wouldn’t be disclosed become public. Indeed, Google lawyers have explicitly argued that the judge should avoid allowing documents to become public... See more
from How to Hide a $2 Trillion Antitrust Trial by Matt Stoller
Faith Hahn added 1y ago
- The Antitrust Division will hopefully respond with “No, your search engine was awesome, but it’s increasingly ad-filled crap. You’re too powerful, you’re too lazy, and America needs some real competition.”
from The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start by Matt Stoller
Faith Hahn added 1y ago
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