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Tom

@molly0xfff

Genuine question: who is *asking* for these features? Is there any consumer/user of windows who's been requesting this?

22 May at 0:14 | Wall-to-wall | Open on cloudisland.nz
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Ooze 𓁟
Tom

@Ooze @molly0xfff

I'd really love to see that demand though. Because if it's just about "spying" you actually WOULDN'T ever want to feed it to a learning model, you'd just want to keep the recordings.

22 May at 0:18 | Open on cloudisland.nz
Ooze 𓁟

@tveastman @molly0xfff unless you want to use this data to train it to do the jobs the humans are currently doing.

22 May at 3:34 | Open on aus.social
Molly White

@tveastman i'm going to go with "microsoft execs desperately trying to justify all the money they're shoveling into the AI fire"

22 May at 0:51 | Open on hachyderm.io
Tom

@molly0xfff

That's truly all I've got too... I'm looking for some kind of counterfactual but it really seems that cynical so far.

22 May at 0:52 | Open on cloudisland.nz
LyallMorrison

@tveastman @molly0xfff As I understand it, there is a belief at the business strategy level (VC/shareholders/Cxx) that authentic user activity is the new commons which needs to be enclosed.

The old Internet, pre-generative AI, is gone and when a meaningful use for LLMs coalesces whoever controls the source of new training data will win at capitalism.

Claiming that data scraping is a feature which serves users is just a way to manufacture consent.

Glad to hear any less cynical explanations.

22 May at 11:28 | Open on cloudisland.nz
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