Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of user privacy.
But the only reason Zoom™ are able to do this now is because for so many years people pretend not to care about a business model entirely based proprietary, centralized architecture and therefore on the collection of all these conversations…
So yeah “training ML” why not. is it very much worse than all the rest they were routinely doing or capable of doing with this data? don’t think so.
Good thing is: soon they can rent to these corporate drones a ML-version of themselves that can sit in these endless meetings in their place, to nod and try to look good and say “i agree” when asked for their opinion…
People pretend to be surprised and upset now.
But the only reason Zoom™ are able to do this now is because for so many years people pretend not to care about a business model entirely based proprietary, centralized architecture and therefore on the collection of all these conversations…
So yeah “training ML” why not. is it very much worse than all the rest they were routinely doing or capable of doing with this data? don’t think so.
Good thing is: soon they can rent to these corporate drones a ML-version of themselves that can sit in these endless meetings in their place, to nod and try to look good and say “i agree” when asked for their opinion…