Post #2068907

2026-04-21 15:24 UTC

> if the current trend continues, you’ll effectively become a prisoner to your own home Same feeling for me. It's oppressive AF. It feels inescapable, relentlessly expanding. I don't want to be a hermit! If it's not a store, it's a rando who takes a selfie in a restaurant and you're at the next table. Or at any kind of public event. Photo u/l'ed to their IG or FB. Then machine learning models spool up to wring out every possible inference. Those inferences can reveal so much more than most ppl understand. Your categorization is on the money, "unnoticeable change". It is the same on the tip top surface between their parents film camera photos, and their IG. But below that is a whole new world of capability. Culture changes. Laws change. Tech possibilities change. But data is forever! We can never know how today's data may be abused tomorrow, by who, and against who. We're seeing data of people's past lives weaponized against ppl, more and more often. It also has psychologic effects. People are less willing to change their personal views, when their whole past is discoverable. That leads to more polarized societies over time.

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@PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 2026-04-21 22:02

Yeah, they might as well start wearing body-cams... oh wait, we have that, it's called a "smart" pin; and police are also increasingly using smartphones to record and upload evidence; quirky, isn't it? The difference is night and day, especially between analog and modern smartphones: always within reach, effectively without storage limitation, and uploaded within a moment's notice (boldly assuming the device's OS, or apps with media access don't analyze device contents, without the user's explicit consent). There's technically no reason to be selective with moments being captured, and as a result nearly any moment classifies. Often without realizing a recording is a memory cue at best, and poorly captures the emotion you felt in the moment; or rather didn't, as you were too preoccupied viewing it through a lens. I simply can't wait until spy... I mean "smart" glasses become mainstream; and people literally experience most of their lives through a lens. It sometimes surprises me how easily people adopted the concept, of maintaining an aptly named "profile" on one's self, and are continuing to refine the profile, over a span of decades at this point; and seemingly have no issues with this profile, directly relating to them as a person. I'm sure most algorithms or AI "assistants", know their users better than they know themselves, and is actively being exploited for advertising, political campaigning, and trapping users in echo chambers; it's really no wonder society is as polarized: it seems to be by design.

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