• Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Back 10 years ago or so, a singer named Vienna Teng released a song called ‘Hymn of Acxiom’ that’s loosely based around this idea. Acxiom was one of the larger data brokers at the time, biggest company you’ve never heard of, etc.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF-7WiLykGM

    Not quite a one hit wonder because she has done some other stuff that is interesting, but because of the context on this one, it really took off for a bit and it is honestly really well done. I think about often whenever I think about the future of AI.

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    It’s even sadder than that: Big Data isn’t even listening to him: they’re just collecting information they can sell. It’s not listening, it’s exploitation.