I find it odd when people get upset at the idea of having access to their own aggregated data but almost never get upset when they hand over massive amounts of data to companies that can privately do the same things on their data.
Google already processes your Photos data, and while you get their facial recognition data pipeline fed back to you, there’s a fair bit of other analysis going on that you aren’t always seeing. But people aren’t generally complaining that they are scanning your photos for criminal activity or trying to maximize product engagement using the data.
But if suddenly they turn back over access to that deep analysis so you can ask a chatbot “what did I eat for my birthday two years ago and who was there” and get a description of the meal, who else was there, and relevant images without needing to scroll back your timeline - now it’s suddenly creepy and we don’t want it (even though literally all that information is already being processed at roughly the same level of fidelity already).
People are weird.
It was always creepy. But this just pushes that creepiness right into peoples’ faces so they can’t ignore it.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Good psychological analysis.
yeah. I prefer actually to see the data they collect on me plainly so I have a better idea of what it all is.
I love this post. Thanks. 🥰
Hey is this something that could be a black mirror episode? If yes, Google, you probably shouldn’t fucking build it.
Wasn’t there one really close to this? AI created using people’s social media posts and stuff. Though I think in that it was meant for after someone died.
I’m not surprised, and I think that’s coming. For sure I see a character AI style “chat with grandma even after she’s passed on” as being a very lucrative business.
Sure it’s just an amalgamation of approximations of what they think she would say. But I’d put it at around 60% of people would think they’re actually speaking to Grandma beyond the grave.
I think it’d be a huge win for privacy. People don’t understand how much data google has on them or what’s possible to do with it. This will illustrate it exactly and hopefully open people’s eyes to switching to privacy focused alternatives.
Google weighs Gemini AI to justify enormous amounts of data collection.
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