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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Replying to @sm0b0t @PereGrimmer and
"hey user, in order to log in to this website, please confirm that you are human by identifying the enemy combatants in this video stream..."
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^__ would make a great SNL sketch. Just need a few more shocking examples for a progression (e.g., "which is notorious dissident XYZ" etc).
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the machine overlords don't discriminate, they'll happily liquidate any piece of walking meat just cuz. no, its only humans that are particular about which meat gets detonated.
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Well, you know, "who wants to meet meat."
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some of us even prefer that _no_ meat gets harmed. we aren't allowed to use the web site :(
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