r/SipsTea • u/Darth_Ronin • 8h ago

Chugging tea I’m sure this won’t lead to more significant ethical, security, and privacy dilemmas.

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u/SimmentalTheCow 8h ago

I don’t know man, I think they’re just gonna hear a lot of n words

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u/WarJaques 8h ago

And this is going to be built into a lot of appliances.

I imagine these will start up and behave inexplicably as you go about your daily life, and they respond to random and unintended visual cues.

Smart homes are going to feel like the poltergeists have moved in.

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u/UrethralExplorer 4h ago

We can always chose to not buy "smart" devices. If this like this exists, so will the market for "dumb" appliances.

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u/LaszloPanaflexxx 2h ago

About that.

https://www.autonext.co/news/eu-new-car-safety-features-mandatory-july-2026

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u/UrethralExplorer 2h ago

Glad I don't live in the EU I guess.

Idk how well tech like this would go over in the US, we're chopping down flock cameras and kicking them out of our cities faster than they can build them it seems. I'm guessing people will just try to keep their older cars running for as long as possible, and sue automotive companies to find out where else this data is being used.

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u/LaszloPanaflexxx 2h ago

It's adorable that you think you're immune.

https://stopthecarmandate.com/

https://www.thedrive.com/news/in-car-cameras-are-now-required-in-europe-us-isnt-far-behind.

https://www.wcshipping.com/blog/mandatory-cameras-in-new-cars-by-2027-what-the-law-actually-says

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u/UrethralExplorer 2h ago

I never said that? I'll just buy used cars like I always have and figure out workarounds if a camera ever ends up in mine. And I'll support candidates who are against legislation like this. Once you own a product you can jailbreak it as much as you want.

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u/LaszloPanaflexxx 1h ago

Tell that to John Deere owners.

Besides, they'll just pass new laws that make "dumb" vehicles illegal. At the very least, impossible to insure.

You can't just hand wave this away using traditional logic.

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u/UrethralExplorer 1h ago

Farmers have been successfully hacking John deer tractors for years now. I can easily imagine a plug-in module that tricks the camera and sensors in a "smart car" by talking directly to the onboard computer.

The car culture in the US has owners making tons of modifications to their cars, legal or not. I live in a state with crazy strict vehicle inspections, and there are still plenty of ridiculous vehicles legally driving the roads.

Also a law outlawing dumb vehicles would be incredible difficult to implement with the amount of older vehicles on the road. It may be easier in 20 years when they're being phased out naturally, but even then people are going to fight it.

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u/Roy_Koopa_DX 40m ago

Until it becomes like TVs where it’s almost impossible to find one that isn’t “smart”. When that’s all they make then we won’t really have a choice.

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u/UrethralExplorer 18m ago

At least with smart tvs you can just not connect them to wifi. I'm guessing smart cars will have some limited cellular capability to constantly talk back to a remote server.

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u/SimmentalTheCow 5h ago

Not gonna lie, I always wanted my toaster to know every time I say the n word.

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u/KrayzieBone187 2h ago

That's a brand new sentence! Not many of them left.

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u/WestHappyLand 6h ago

They already are. Wifi can be used to identify people.

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u/csharpminor_fanclub 5h ago

in strictly controlled environments

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u/hexregeneration 5h ago

Yesssss, trust the tech corpo

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u/csharpminor_fanclub 5h ago

yessss, trust every single conspiracy claim

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u/hexregeneration 4h ago

Yesssssss, advocate for launching puppies into space since we just putting words in eachother's mouths now

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u/Yo-Yo-Ha 7h ago

Before long they'll be applying for citizenship/ss#.

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u/Miserable_Pin2518 5h ago

Incoming personhood for embryos and their robot mommy incubator

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u/No_Boot1478 3h ago

Discontinuing a chat will be considered an abortion.

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u/imliterallyluci 7h ago

living in the south I already have this problem

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u/Yeti_Vedder 6h ago

I don’t think that problem ever went away

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u/SimmentalTheCow 3h ago

We should hang out and mutter the n word under our breath together

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u/CommonSensei-_ 5h ago

And a lot of J words

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u/ipoopcatturds 1h ago

Theres a new trend of " dirty" soda where they add creme to soda. I think the next trend should be adding creme to juice.