The legal profession sucks since you need to satisfy the client; I'd rather be in tech, screwing the customer.
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It feels trite to say but it fits here: the users are (part of) the product!
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This became more than a pithy anti-tech mantra to me when I was working on something, and I realized I might have to build /another/ product & distribute it freely, just to use the data for the real product & actual intended customers.
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LOL. I imagine there are situations where companies have daisy-chains of info-gathering projects tied to a target project.
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aye, one that comes to mind is that Google “which famous work of art do you look like” thing... its own, widely promoted, self-contained app ostensibly unrelated to any actual product
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Holy crap, I hadn't heard of that. Sinister.
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there's a ton of examples of that kind. the most famous one, I think, was the use of ReCaptcha to solve problems in Google's automated book scanning project. (they don't do that anymore and ReCaptcha has since been redesigned)
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Right, I was gonna say, seems like they re-tooled it for driverless cars. (-- Hm, wonder if they could use the audio version (which is weak ofc) to help generate songs or recognize accents or something.)
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