Google Assistant making calls pretending to be human not only without disclosing that it's a bot, but adding "ummm" and "aaah" to deceive the human on the other end with the room cheering it... horrifying. Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing.
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As digital technologies become better at doing human things, the focus has to be on how to protect humans, how to delineate humans and machines, and how to create reliable signals of each—see 2016. This is straight up, delilberate deception. Not okay. https://twitter.com/RulingWalnut/status/994235907648688128 …
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So many called me a Luddite(!) or anti-tech (!) for saying Google fake-human bot is a terrible idea: if I'm your anti-tech person..
I saved up pennies from my menial labor job as a tween—legally too young; I snuck in—to buy a computer to learn to code.
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And people with anxiety and other challenges that make it harder for them to talk on the phone: This will ruin what could otherwise be a helpful technology for you. Reckless deployment isn't your friend. To preserve a channel for accessibility support, you must be extra careful.
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Anyway, back to typing out all the (obvious!!! it's 2018!!!) points on why this is such a bad idea at so many levels. Still flabbergasted that basic dynamics of deploying stuff like that at scale just isn't thought through... IT IS 2018.
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"It's just a demo" people aren't getting the full scale of problems. Also Google putting a bot identifier at the beginning of call doesn't solve the many problems.https://twitter.com/getaclue_1/status/994918625906700289 …
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It's pretty clear to me that they are celebrating being able to tap into "people" with an API--now they can access "offline" knowledge with a phonecall
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(I am also disgusted)
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Rest assured there will be some devastating memes posted internally about this.
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externality generation on information processing overhead. it's like dumping garbage on your neighbour's lawn.
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if it is but they have a direction where they want to be (it will be easier for them to go through social and see what ppl want to actually use this for)
2) assuming that this will be used for just good is too good of you