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Re: Crowdsource by Google

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Post by asim »

amelius wrote: post #85
asim wrote: post #58

I was always a huge fan of Google from the late 90s onwards and was employed their from 2011 to 2013. I continue to use their services to this day. Unfortunately no matter how much you like something, when any one entity amasses this much power it's bound to make you a bit uncomfortable. I wish Google did more to anonymize and potentially distribute this kind of tech in a way that enabled anyone to run it. At the sca…

> Ultimately crowdsource leads to UBI powered by Google. It's inevitable. UBI also provides income when the recipient performs no work at all for whatever reason. Why would a company support that?

The idea is that you will continue to use Google's services on the condition of receiving UBI. Crowdsource would continue to exist until UBI is in effect and then be used as a gamified way to earn even more money. Remember UBI is not infinite money. You get a baseline for paying your bills. Above and beyond you'll need to earn whatever you need for pleasure.

Re: Crowdsource by Google

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Post by celdon25 »

trapped wrote: post #48
jackblemming wrote: post #11

Does anyone else hate what corporations have done to the word "delightful"? All the corporate art is so homogeneous too. Also a trillion dollar plus market cap company trying to get free labor? Seriously?

It's giving free services. What about that? And, not just this one company many other trillion $$ market caps give free and paid services and also welcome free feedback. When you comment on Yelp, Google Maps review, YouTube it's same.

Yes, it was those evil “boomer” companies that charged us money and gave us poor UX. Google saved us from that, praise Google.

I call this “digital tunnel vision”.

Re: Crowdsource by Google

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Post by thinkingemote »

IshKebab wrote: post #76
Rebelgecko wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine there would be some serious legal concerns with releasing the raw data (I work for Google, but no special insights into this project)

Why? Users volunteer the data. Just ask them if they're ok with it being public.

One negative, I guess, would be uncovering the moderation algorithm so a malicious user could circumvent it.

Another negative would be release of Bad Words or illegal content submitted by malicious users. Depends on the task.

But the actual raw data would be of more use to researchers than one cleaned from an output of algorithms. Perhaps there could be a program for educational researchers?

Re: Crowdsource by Google

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Post by Snowworm »

LittleShaman wrote: post #86
gerash wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what you are ranting about but the term "crowdsourcing" is exactly what this tool is created to do. Don't use it if you don't want to.

It's still funny a company awash in money wouldn't just hire people to do this. And I'm quite sure people criticizing this won't be using it :)

Because it's cheaper and it's clearly working. I doubt someone doing this as a full time job would be as good at these monotonous tasks than 10 times as many people who are doing it for a few minutes per day.

Re: Crowdsource by Google

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Post by FernandoMax »

From the authors of Google Reader, it-was-free-for-a-decade-but-now-pay-or you'll-lose-all-your-domain.com-emails-handled-by-previously-free-workspace-product, the secret agreement with Facebook for limiting competition in programatic advertising https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo... now arrives "Work for us for free in our proprietary product in exchange of a badge". What a big load of shit.

Re: Crowdsource by Google

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Post by number6 »

FernandoMax wrote: post #106

From the authors of Google Reader, it-was-free-for-a-decade-but-now-pay-or you'll-lose-all-your-domain.com-emails-handled-by-previously-free-workspace-product, the secret agreement with Facebook for limiting competition in programatic advertising https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo... now arrives "Work for us for free in our proprietary product in exchange of a badge". What a big load of shit…

Could have, at least, be a NFT

Re: Crowdsource by Google

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Post by OrangeMonkey »

number6 wrote: post #107
FernandoMax wrote: post #106

From the authors of Google Reader, it-was-free-for-a-decade-but-now-pay-or you'll-lose-all-your-domain.com-emails-handled-by-previously-free-workspace-product, the secret agreement with Facebook for limiting competition in programatic advertising https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo... now arrives "Work for us for free in our proprietary product in exchange of a badge". What a big load of shit…

Could have, at least, be a NFT

Could have been yes.

Imagine if it was a beanie baby instead man. I think those are going to the moon.

Re: Crowdsource by Google

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Post by FernandoMax »

number6 wrote: post #107
FernandoMax wrote: post #106

From the authors of Google Reader, it-was-free-for-a-decade-but-now-pay-or you'll-lose-all-your-domain.com-emails-handled-by-previously-free-workspace-product, the secret agreement with Facebook for limiting competition in programatic advertising https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo... now arrives "Work for us for free in our proprietary product in exchange of a badge". What a big load of shit…

Could have, at least, be a NFT

To add insult to injury, they coined the "Don't be evil" mantra. Good for hiring, for onboarding users... And then the daughter of Eric Smith, from all the companies in the world, she chose Cambridge Analytica for the internship. AKA: the best social profiling algorithms in the world based on personal data (eroding your privacy). https://www.businessinsider.in/Emails-link-Peter-Thiels-Pala...

Media has too much fear to talk openly about what's happening with Google from some time ago.

Re: Crowdsource by Google

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Post by fxtentacle »

prox wrote: post #82
fxtentacle wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Google shares some Crowdsource data via open-sourcing" Looks like the releases will only be partial. This kind of data should be collected bu a nonprofit for the benefit of everyone.

Also, what the crowd gets is “cool badges” Who even comes up with these things?

Marketing people who understand how the average citizen works? I'm pretty sure they'll find thousands to low millions of volunteers.
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