Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not | Ars Technica
The "AI mouse" is just the start.
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That’s sort of the point. It’s not really that the AI is useful, it’s that it’s the next big unregulated and misunderstood thing.
Companies are using the idea of “training models” to harvest user data well beyond any reasonable scope, so they can sell it.
The breadth of information that’s being openly collected under the guise of ‘AI’ was unconscionable 10 years ago, and even 5 years ago, folks would have been freaked out. Now businesses are pretending it’s just a run of the mill requirement to make their software work.
Case in point of how commodified our data is: Kaiser Permanente intentionally embedded tracking software in their site and now has to class the collected data as a user data breach. These products are likely from Google, Facebook, Adobe, Microsoft, or Salesforce. And they share the collected data, which can easily be de-anonymized to their advertising partners, who share it with their partners, until it winds up in the database of a data broker. This has been known to be an issue for awhile: Some Hospital Websites May Be Violating Privacy Rules By Sharing Data With Third-Party Trackers.
Anyway, sorry. Soapbox. I’ll put it away.