EVERY "public service" company is now attempting to extract value. They're all going for it. They're gonna burn it all down to try and turn AI into a financial exit. Search engines, communication backbones, social networks, everybody.
My read is they're all shit terrified of the impact AI will have and aren't long-term thinkers, so their only short term play is to burn it all down and exit ASAP. Never mind that what they're burning down is, uh, the entirety of our infrastructure. They don't care.
@eniko@glassbottommeg AI will help in some areas where they will be a boon, but definitely not in all business function areas, most specially anything customer-facing (cluetrain manifesto). This fevered activity is from just the rats on the ship. Unfortunately, they are the ones wearing the suits...
@eniko@glassbottommeg they all know that AI is a sham. They’re just trying to extract as much money now in the hopes that they can all go hide in their bunkers and yachts when the proverbial shit that they have created hits the fan.
@glassbottommeg You can tell that this is controversial because there are already phishing sites seizing the opportunity, to 'allow people to opt-out data sharing with Zoom for products of <companyhere>'. I just reported one.
@glassbottommeg Looks like their GovCloud TOS haven't been updated since 2019 - I'd be surprised if US 3-letter Federal agencies would be down with this fresh funk.
@glassbottommeg Thanks to the Fediverse telling me this, I just stopped my automatic payments to Zoom and deletion of my account is next. I don’t get how they are #HIPAA compliant at this point in the game. 🤷🏽😬
If course, it’s fine not to trust them, but at least they claim it’s not their whole network, only people wanting these features (meeting notes and something about chat?), and that you have to give explicit consent to that when enabling them.
@glassbottommeg if any organization spends more than 1K per year on zoom for small conferencing, change to FREE + your server hosting, to bigbluebutton. FOSS tool that can support under 50 concurrent users per meeting.
@glassbottommeg I am a newb to AI thingies, but I had assumed they wanted to sell this training data to companies who could actually exploit it. I always assume it's for a $$$ transaction though, so I'm biased on the best of days.
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I work for a non profit that uses Zoom “phone” they will not switch and now private client interactions will be training their data sets. Cuz privacy schmivacy and HIPAA Shmippa.
@glassbottommeg As a teacher, I regularly screen-share textbooks. These are copyrighted. If Zoom sucks up this content and treats it like it’s public domain, the publishers are not going to be happy.
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