Watched this last night, pretty eye opening. My wife and I were watching and I told her this is why I’ve never had social media. She rebutted with, “The Ohio Outdoors is social media”. I spent the next 10 minutes explaining the difference between TOO and Facebook.
Honestly, I've been thinking about these things lately, the other day I asked myself "what if they just shut down Facebook and the like?"
First thing that popped up on my phone this morning was Google telling me about my privacy options. Personally, I'm more worried about the data mining Google is doing on me. On a larger scale, the influence on society and politics by FB and Twitter is a bigger concern.
Getting rid of Facebook and the others would be no problem at all. Getting rid of gmail would be a little painful.
That Tristan dude is my new hero. All those industry insiders who spoke up have my respect. This thing should be shown on all the major networks, should be shouted from the rooftops, should inspire a real national debate. And even though I hate saying it, there should be regulation put in place for the safety and welfare of our society.
I will certainly be letting everyone in my circle know about this documentary.
Haven't watched this yet, but I will.
@Jackalope just curious on your opinion on this because you know and deal with this way more than I could ever imagine doing so. But at what point in time do you see A.I. becoming a REAL problem if its not ready. I mean when do you see A.I. making it into us instead of just on us? In my opinion this is the next step.
But I'm sure Big Brother checks in here daily to see what they can find..
Do thought get ads for Pornhub and treestands simultaneously?They talk about AI some in the documentary. The basic point was we're worried about AI taking over, but the reality is these algorythms that Google and Facebook write is basically AI. It searches and finds it's own information and then applies an action based on the algorythm. The developers and companies have no idea what they outcome will be. They can give the algorythm a subset of data and it's anyone guess what the output will be, all they care about is it generates revinue in the way of ad marketing. As for it becoming an imbedded technology, I see it happening within the next 20 years, it'll first be tested and marketed for medical applications, refined, and then opened to the public and marketed as a convienece factor.
Honestly, I've been thinking about these things lately, the other day I asked myself "what if they just shut down Facebook and the like?"
First thing that popped up on my phone this morning was Google telling me about my privacy options. Personally, I'm more worried about the data mining Google is doing on me. On a larger scale, the influence on society and politics by FB and Twitter is a bigger concern.
Getting rid of Facebook and the others would be no problem at all. Getting rid of gmail would be a little painful.
That Tristan dude is my new hero. All those industry insiders who spoke up have my respect. This thing should be shown on all the major networks, should be shouted from the rooftops, should inspire a real national debate. And even though I hate saying it, there should be regulation put in place for the safety and welfare of our society.
I will certainly be letting everyone in my circle know about this documentary.
Most all of us carry a device where as they can track our every move - unless you disable the tracking stuff in your phoneCorrect me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t the “Networks” be a milder version of what social media are currently doing?
Most all of us carry a device where as they can track our every move - unless you disable the tracking stuff in your phone
DangDoesn't matter, you can have all those things turned off, no SIM card, phone not even hooked to a provider and the thing still knows your every move.
Doesn't matter, you can have all those things turned off, no SIM card, phone not even hooked to a provider and the thing still knows your every move.
So let's say when your kid turns 13 you are expected (by today's standard) to hand your kid a thousand dollar device with a monthy contract. And somehow we want to blame the man? I failed in this area as a parent. Shoukdve went full Amish
Dave? An asshole? No wayThat's the other dimension of manipulation. If you do that then you are the asshole. By not being honest about their manipulative business practices they're causing society to think that it's nothing more than a harmless social platform. As as long as the majority of people are ignorant to that manipulation then crowd mentality sees no harm in it. Therefore if you as a parent in the minority put your foot down, you are the asshole. The presentation of the business model puts your kids against you and makes it easier to just give in then be the bad guy.