alt Hacker NewsWhat is it with Meta and destroying society in general? Zuck buys all the buildings in the block to have his privacy, but now wants to patent everyone else’s privacy who happens to be in the vicinity of his product. Researchers already found a dormant facial recognition pipeline quietly sitting inside the Meta AI app earlier this year, built and shipped without anyone opting in. I hope people have the power to sue if there are any recordings without consent.
https://www.engadget.com/2187824/wired-found-code-for-an-unr...
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> Zuck buys all the buildings in the block to have his privacy
It's even worse than that, now he's buying up indigenous burial sites:
https://robbreport.com/shelter/celebrity-homes/mark-zuckerbe...
Billionaires buying tons of Hawaiian land is actually a huge problem. Marc Benioff has been doing it as well.
Destroying the society is a feature for them not a bug.
This is what happens when you take people with impaired empathy for other human beings, nurture that impairment, and then present unfathomable sums of wealth to incentivize the continuation of the impairment.
Podcast Behind the Bastards has a great episode on Zuck, worth a listen.