Comment by 👻 darkghost
Re: "How's this for a malgorithm?... My daughter recently…"
The only way to win is to not play.
Mar 10 · 8 weeks ago
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The connection graph is something they perfected ages ago (that is what the 3-letter agencies paid them to do). Context is more difficult but I am sure AI will rule out stupid situations like that someday. If they care which they probably don't.
My disturbing moment happened 10 years ago when my wife and I (without phones) ran into an old acquaintance and her ex 'Bob' was briefly mentioned. Upon returning home Bob was suggested to my partner by Facebook.
- They listened on acq.'s phone
- They figured out who my wife is
- They figured out who Bob is.
And that was 10 years ago .
I stopped using Meta products then and there
@darkghost That doesn't work either. It's an externality. We're in zugzwang and attempting to "not play" usually just leads to schizoid suffering as society gets more and more insane around us.
Worse: I am not playing but my pics repeatedly get tagged, and my idiot friends routinely turn in their contract lists that I am on.
🗡️ The_Jackal · Mar 11 at 00:54:
I never want any family or acquaintances to take videos with me in them or pictures of me any more, because I'm sure they'll upload them to Facebook or somewhere else like they do nearly everything else with their lives.
🚀 lars_the_bear [OP] · Mar 11 at 07:41:
It's not that they made the connection that dismays me, because I know how good the social media companies are at that. It's that they made such an offensively inappropriate connection. To be fair, the convicted felon probably didn't have "I am a convicted child rapist" on his Facebook profile, but I wonder if it would have made any difference if he had.
Fucks me off when you go to a friends house and you've got a Ring doorbell in ya face as you arrive, then Alexa's, modern TV etc... dotted through the house. Or, you get a lift with them in their shiny new EV surveillance wagon sending whatever to God's know where. We supposed to just not have friends anymore? I'm minimally social as it is. Don't even get me started on the public space surveillance :'(
🚀 thoughtterminatingcliche · Mar 11 at 20:16:
This "People You May Know" thing has been under fire for quite some time. They haven't revealed how exactly it works and it can and has been abused by stalkers and predators.
🚀 thoughtterminatingcliche · Mar 11 at 20:18:
I also have personally experienced something similar. Two people I know happened to be in the same courtroom for unrelated cases, soon enough the algorithm matched them...
🚀 thoughtterminatingcliche · Mar 11 at 20:21:
Lateral surveillance at its worst
Original Post
How's this for a malgorithm?... My daughter recently served on the jury, in the trial of a man accused of child rape. He was convicted, with the jury unanimous. A couple of weeks later, while looking at Facebook, my daughter got a "people you might know..." recommendation for -- you guessed it -- the rapist. And most of his family, for some reason. I've always been disturbed by how well Facebook and the others can find connections between people, even when given no definite personal data....