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Some many in these comments are like "what about the ethical source data ones?"
Which ones? Name one.
None of the big ones are. Wtf is ethically sourced? E.g. Ebay wants to collect data for ai shit. My mom has an account, and she could opt out of them using her data but when I told her about it, she told me that she didn't understand. And she moved on. She just didn't understand what the fuck they are doing and why she might should care. But I guess it is "ethically" sourced as they kinda asked by making it opt out, I guess.
That surely is very ethical and you can not critic it for it... As we all know, an 50yo adult fucking a 14yo would also be totally cool as long as the 14yo doesn't say no. Right? That is how our moral compass work. /S
Fucking disgusting. All of you tech bro complain about people not getting ai or tech in general and then talk about ethically sourced data. I spit on you.
I love IT, I work in it and I live it, but I have morals and you could too
Edit: after a bunch of messages telling me that I am wrong. I wonder when they will realize that they are making my point. I am saying that it isn't ethically sourced without consent and uninformed consent isn't consent. And they are tell me, an it professional with an interest in how machine learning functions ever since alphago and 7 years before the ai hype, that I don't understand it. If I don't understand it, what makes you believe the general public understands and can consent to it. If I am wrong about ai, I am wrong about ai but I am not wrong about the unethical nature of that data, people don't understand it.
No.
As your mother's case shows, making it "opt out" is emphatically not the ethical choice. It is the grifter's choice because it comes invariably paired with difficult-to-find settings and explanations that sound like they come from a law book as dictated by someone simultaneously drunk and tripping balls.
The only ethical option is "opt in". This means people give informed consent (or if they don't bother to read and just click OK at least they get consented hard like they deserve). This means you have to persuade that the choice is good for them and not just for the service provider.
TL;DR: Opt-in is the way you do things without icky "I don't understand consent" vibes.
Did you read the whole comment? You understand that I was sarcastic and I followed it by be hinting at the idea that "she didn't say no" is not considered consent in e.g. sexual encounters, raising the question why would it be here?
So we agree. You just misunderstood my comment.
Yeah, sorry. I've seen so many people say what you said unironically I reacted with my almost-boilerplate response immediately. My bad.