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If it’s Internet connected and requires a cloud subscription service, you are just paying to be spied on and controlled. This is as true for dogs as it is for speakers and TVs.
Within the next decade, chances are your neighbors, or maybe even you, will be sharing a home with a robot roommate to lend a hand with everyday tasks.
Thank you Carnegie Melon for making sure I remember I’m worse off than my neighbors. I feel seen
Nah I’m fine with doing this shit myself, this future is really for the laziest fucks.
Someone’s never struggled with major depression 🥲
My thoughts went more towards people who aren’t very mobile or physically impaired honestly.
That to, I’m just talking from experience 🥲
This is great news for elders or disabled people! Get a robot to help around the house.
Get a robot to
help around the houseobserve your daily schedule, your habits, your every movement, and upload video, audio, sonar, lidar and radar recordings tothe cloudprobably just an unesecured S3 bucket. And then use all that to profile you, sell you stuff, and send automatic reports to law enforcement about anything that triggers the AI as a possible indicator of criminal behavior.Oh yeah, sign me right up for the corporate-controlled self-propelled surveillance platform. Maybe I’ll get two, so there’s never a gap in surveillance while one is recharging.
And if you think any of that sounds paranoid, you should be aware it’s already happening with robot vacuums:
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
While it’s vacuuming your dirt, Roomba also collects data on you: Next, it could be sold
Small price to pay. They can watch me do my daily physical therapy, eat, play video games and watch TV. I hate to disappoint but I am not some secret agent hiding a bunch of shit. I also wouldn’t give them access to my internet or cell phone.
