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Today in Microsoft's dark patterns: this notification from OneDrive is a lie.
Camera upload isn't "paused." Camera upload has never been turned on, because that's not what I use OneDrive for.
Don't pretend like something has gone wrong and I'm somehow at risk just because I haven't used every greedy feature of your product.
I'm even one of those perverts who uses OneDrive ON PURPOSE. I LIKE having it on my phone. But I'm starting to question that every time this notification pops up.
“I’m one of these people who’s very anti-’robot rights,’ as it were, because I believe it’s essentially a degradation of human rights. It doesn’t elevate robots to the same status as humans, it degrades humans to the same status as robots. And I think we should always, when we’re looking at these machines, treat them as what are, which is avatars of capital. You’re not being nice to a conscious being if you help a robot cross the street; you are helping capital in some way.”
–James Vincent, speaking to @parismarx on this week’s ’Tech Won’t Save Us.’
Vincent was addressing physical, embodied robots, but I think this obviously also applies to #AI generally.
