Just ban me at that point lmfao.
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If anything asked me for a selfie I'd close it and not go back. I just. No lmao absolutely not; go heck yourselves.
i just... god no. holy heck.
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#82I had to double check that today isn’t April 1st
I know right? And the obnoxious music in the video like something so wonderful and worthy of celebration what the actual fuck
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#83I would love to know how they are going to handle deepfakes. Also, doesn't this give law enforcement an easier avenue to compel access to someone's accounts?
Yes it does. Biometric information (e.g a picture of your face) is famously not nearly as protected under the 4th amendment compared to things like passwords. Anyone opting into this feature is effectively giving any US law enforcement (including ICE, local law enforcement, etc) free reign over their data.
Not just USA, same in many other countries too.
If a journalist or activist don’t use face or fingerprints to unlock devices.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes— they spy on every pic and text upload. They literally are big brother.
I uploaded a picture to Google Maps once. They told me they needed to access my photos to be able to upload the picture. A week later I get a notification “hey do you want to upload this photograph of a restaurant you took at location x?”. So Google Maps was busy rifling through my photos while I was going about my day-to-day business. Creepy, gross and repulsive.
GrapheneOS has storage scopes which make the app think it has full folder/file access but in reality you can choose the exact files or folders to give access. It helps keep invasive apps in line.
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#85Every time Google comes out with a new "feature" like this, it reminds me to resume my de-Googling journey with reinforced vigor. Drive and Photos are low-hanging fruit. GMail and YouTube will be more difficult.
I have a burner account just for YouTube. If they want to ban me I’ll just get the content without paying for premium.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same reason age identity verification is getting a lot of push back..? This is dystopian on another level. We are gong to reach a state of total digital surveillance without regulation at this point.
Then regulate. The feature itself is useful, not depressing.
At this point all govs would just regulate it to mandatory.
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#87Your Google Account holds a lot of valuable information, from cherished photos to important emails and documents. Stuff like this is why I and many other people are going out of our way to make this no longer the case.
I’m not sure I understand why this particular line bothers you. They seem to just be emphasising that your Google account has a lot of information and therefore they are providing another way to secure it?
Whether this is a good method or not is a different discussion and I probably will not use this method
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
why are so many websites called title-of-the-article-dot-com ai-generated? I suppose the kind of people making them just don't have a blog or something
why are so many people so comfortable making this assumption, based on writing style or a checklist of supposed tells or notoriously unreliable detectors, and making kneejerk accusations like they can do no harm and are already settled fact? It's one thing to feel suspicious or disregard the article yourself, but being so incautious about making public accusations without solid evidence is another. At best, you've id…
worst case, it's not generated and they just used ai for editing without realizing it has such a distinct style. that might be the case here: in the couple of paragraphs around the "I am but one" heading the writing style seems (to me) different (more human-ish?) compared to the style at the beginning.
unfortunately I also think they're quite bad, so I'm not sure what the moral here is for the author (who, true to their word, has elected to stay anonymous).
the question I asked in my comment isn't rhetorical, by the way: I genuinely think it's a pattern, and I want to look into it a bit deeper
oh and for the record, I don't suggest you disregard the article. it raises valid points and I agree with it. go read it!
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#89Your Google Account holds a lot of valuable information, from cherished photos to important emails and documents. Stuff like this is why I and many other people are going out of our way to make this no longer the case.
I’m not sure I understand why this particular line bothers you. They seem to just be emphasising that your Google account has a lot of information and therefore they are providing another way to secure it? Whether this is a good method or not is a different discussion and I probably will not use this method
It sounds like extortion. Give us your face. It'd be a shame if something happens to all that data
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same reason age identity verification is getting a lot of push back..? This is dystopian on another level. We are gong to reach a state of total digital surveillance without regulation at this point.
Then regulate. The feature itself is useful, not depressing.
The current issue is in the category "action from bad regulators is worse than no action".
(The further issue is that bad regulators are posing the basis for future worse regulators.)