In the “old days”, when you sent someone a file, that file would end up with them on their computer, but generally nowhere else unless that person actively chose to send it somewhere else - which they generally wouldn’t as we are assuming they are a non-malicious human being who respects your privacy.
Nowadays, ending a file to someone usually means that file getting synced into their cloud storage, and now with things like recall, seen by some AI and used for whatever purposes, over which you have absolutely zero control.
Yeah, but as you say that’s not been the case for a while.
A trend I’ve noticed is that AI paranoia has raised alarms about practices that have been an issue for a while without much of a reaction. I choose to call that a good thing.
AI allowing for more surveillance? Meta spent most of the 2010s training facial recognition on all your tagged photos. Recall may see and parse things you send to a friend? Google, Samsung, Apple and Microsoft have been running object recognition on images and indexing on document contents for ages and a bunch of their apps back up incoming messages in their cloud services automatically. Microsoft implemented a version of Recall (based on metadata as opposed to pictures) all the way back in Windows 8.
I think a mix of the data being saved being so easily human readable and the terrible implementation of Recall on its first pass led to some hyperawareness, but a lot of this has been a gradually boiling frog for a while. And it will continue to boil, because Apple and Google implemented the exact same feature on phones already and nobody is freaking out unless it sparks the sense of recognition from it being called “Recall” specifically.
The endless shilling of AI features nobody wants has made me frustrated with a lot of the shills, but I have to say, also with humanity in general.
I understand what it’s saying, though.
In the “old days”, when you sent someone a file, that file would end up with them on their computer, but generally nowhere else unless that person actively chose to send it somewhere else - which they generally wouldn’t as we are assuming they are a non-malicious human being who respects your privacy.
Nowadays, ending a file to someone usually means that file getting synced into their cloud storage, and now with things like recall, seen by some AI and used for whatever purposes, over which you have absolutely zero control.
Yeah, but as you say that’s not been the case for a while.
A trend I’ve noticed is that AI paranoia has raised alarms about practices that have been an issue for a while without much of a reaction. I choose to call that a good thing.
AI allowing for more surveillance? Meta spent most of the 2010s training facial recognition on all your tagged photos. Recall may see and parse things you send to a friend? Google, Samsung, Apple and Microsoft have been running object recognition on images and indexing on document contents for ages and a bunch of their apps back up incoming messages in their cloud services automatically. Microsoft implemented a version of Recall (based on metadata as opposed to pictures) all the way back in Windows 8.
I think a mix of the data being saved being so easily human readable and the terrible implementation of Recall on its first pass led to some hyperawareness, but a lot of this has been a gradually boiling frog for a while. And it will continue to boil, because Apple and Google implemented the exact same feature on phones already and nobody is freaking out unless it sparks the sense of recognition from it being called “Recall” specifically.
The endless shilling of AI features nobody wants has made me frustrated with a lot of the shills, but I have to say, also with humanity in general.