As AI algorithms quietly take over life’s most important decisions, the right to opt out is fading – and with it, our autonomy.
  • FourWaveforms@lemm.eeEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    By giving us the choice of whether someone else should profit by our data.

    Same as I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and copying off my test answers.

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      By giving us the choice of whether someone else should profit by our data.

      What benefit do you expect from that?

      Same as I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and copying off my test answers.

      Why not?

      • FourWaveforms@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 hour ago

        I prefer that the benefits of those things accrue to me, or to others, or to no one, in accordance with my choice.

        In this way, I would decide who gains the economic or social benefits of these activities of mine; and I also, in the case of personal data, would decide who gets to make my business, their business.