But the quote itself admits that the consumers here are the advertisers, it is natural that the users have little say. The users are being milked/harvested/herded/served to the consumers

But they are making it harder to have products too.

Reported for being awesome.

Awesome, monetization of enshittification.

Hahaha, I wasn’t expecting the future to be elderly people walking around high as kites :D but sounds fun

Thanks, I edited the headline to make it clearer, but this community is overrun with confidently incorrect folks.

Depends on the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights in shithole countries you don’t.

Depends. You have image rights. Those may not be relevant to people taking pictures…but they are relevant to databases collecting info on you.

Yeah, I agree that decentralization of the grid and self-consumption is better than these mass baseload solutions…but they will only get cheaper.

I disagree. If you have thousands of these and some program live cross-matching and correlating everything about everyone, it is a different problem from “being seen in public” or even traditional street cameras. Before, they could investigate a limited number of people, so they had to focus on suspects and a case. Now they just mass trawl everyone’s lives simultaneously.

They really must take every single last one source of joy from everyone who hasn’t turned into sheep at this point.

AI allows you to quiet quit without shitty bosses noticing. Win win :/

They had to do one thing…

burn your clothes too…and don’t forget to cleanse your intestines…you never know :D oh oh and screening for the sexually transmitted spyware.

Ask it what the Helvetica scenario is.

That’s a hell of a faustian bargain, good luck with that.

Move into the machine city, probably they keep the machines cool inside.

Can we finally call them machine cities? And we’re losing the war against the machines, by the way.

it came pre-enshittified, quelle surprise

Oh… I guess you need 1 year on just a library and a linux machine and a next year with an added search engine before getting your AI coder driver’s licence.