We should profit from the purchases we make that become data for someone else to profit from.
I hate this timeline.
“Anonymized”
Do you know how easy it is to deanonimize it? Clearly the regulators and politicians don’t care.
To them it’s a feature, not a bug.
I’m not sure how, but buying a company for just the data should be illegal.
They didn’t, they bought the data, and only the data, in a bankruptcy auction.
Everything is on sale for the highest bidder in an effort to get as much money to pay the company debt as possible. Buying the actual company would be suicide, as then you also get all that debt.I think that’s the point, they could keep it afloat as competition for what they paid
Unfortunately even though that isn’t the case here, companies get bought up for parts all the time.
Court records reveal that the Google purchase includes 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, 7.2 billion records for competitors’ flights, 7.5 billion passenger transaction records from 2008, and more than 175,000 employee records from 1986. Aside from this, the company will also get information on revenue, aircraft operations, employee productivity records, audits and fraud, marketing campaigns, human resources records, project management, and pricing curve data, among others.
This could be a cause of concern for anyone who’s ever transacted with the airline, either as a customer, employee, contractor, or even investor, especially as AI is known for its privacy problems.
Add it to the list of reasons to always use email aliases as well as unique passwords and phone numbers!
These are becoming (more) absurd. Like what the fuck is the benefit of this training data? Now the Gemini can statistically generate new ways to euphemistically refer to poor people?
Or Amazon scraping the “data” out of Twitch streams. I barely see the appeal of watching someone elese play a game. I mean, at least they’re a real person I can conceivably pester with chat messages. Why would I watch a fake person play a game that doesn’t exist?
Certainly only good things coming from this news.
So when Gemini is used to plan the next 9/11, surely someone will object. Right?
Im sure gemini will offer “thoughts and prayers”
when the AI bubble pops they can still use this data for personalized advertising.
