I thought Star Wars has neither fences nor railings?

What the fuck are Amazon and Facebook doing? They were always spying on everyone, but that was just for targeted ads.

Now that the government is on the brink of flat out fascism they start sharing their data?

Yeah, real mystery there 🙄

Khajit has wares if you have coin.

It’s security against the robot uprising

Doesn’t anyone restrict their AIs rights? An AI should not be allowed to delete the backup. Only someone with admin rights should be able to do that. Normal users, developers and AIs of course should not have the right to touch the backup. Do these people run AI agents as root?

I’d swap EA and Ubi. EA is as bad as Ubi AND has the tendency to take beloved franchises and kill them. Definitely Chaotic Evil. A tumor on the games industry.

I mean, that’s the plan, right?

And not one mention about how the trip was… No one can tell me they didn’t try!

Wage slavery. The US is one of the worst offenders. By binding your healthcare to your employer and having next to no worker protection laws, the loss of your job might cause homelessness or death. Is that really a choice? Work or die? And with stagnating wages who has the financial security and time to fight for their rights?

This is of course by design.

I don’t drink. I only very seldom do drugs. I still feel like shit, thank you very much.

Child or not, pure butter tastes terrible.

Amateur! Aim at his crotch.

I would say probably more likely to be a personal AI assistant, that handles all PC/cell phone interactions for you. Like Star Trek: “Computer, do my taxes!”

Of course that relies heavily on AI becoming more reliable then it is now.

No one wants an AI summery of their e-mails if it’s full of hallucinations, or their tax returns to get them into prison.

I normally have GPS and Bluetooth disabled, so my position would have to be guessed based on cell towers. We were not even on the same WLAN (because the WLAN was down in the vacation home, much to our dissatisfaction).

While I can’t rule out somebody in our group stealthily googling the tablets, phones while playing is generally frowned upon.

So yeah, being on the same cell tower as someone I know who might have searched for it might be the only other explanation.

The adventure itself didn’t have anything to do with the tablets, that was just our group doing strange stuff, like always.

No, I am not a AI fanboy. I just compared bad to worse.

Of course users get something from their smartphones, but not from the spyware on it. The spyware is not an integral function of a smartphone.

Just think about the scale of the surveillance: every smartphone user is being monitored 24/7 in hope to find something to sell them.

If you hate AI because it wastes so much energy, think about the cost for the this: Energy, water, battery life, bandwidth, … And in contrast to AI the ‘users’ don’t get anything in return.

Okay, so here is my story:

I was on holiday with my friends and we were playing a TTRPG. In the RPG our group needed charol tablets. I have never in my life googled or needed something like that.

After the session, I opened up Amazon to buy something I forget to pack and voilà: Amazon suggested me to buy charol tablets.

My smartphone must have listened in and given that data to Amazon.

No Alexa or similar products were in the vacation home.

Or that the iPhone(s) would only make sense in a mirror selfie.

Many of these “business geniuses” do the following:

• buy struggling business cheap
• reduce expenses (biggest expense is always salaries, so fire a lot of people)
• on paper, the business is making money (while the rest of the staff frantically try to survive without enough manpower and with a lot of loss on knowledge and experience)
• sell doomed business before it collapses (remember: on paper, it looks healthy)