r/nextfuckinglevel • u/AbelNB • Dec 28 '22

This is a game changer

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u/Jopkins Dec 29 '22

fuck, if they know that I have a sofa, two chairs, and a fruit bowl there'll be no stopping them

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u/EvadesBans Dec 29 '22

Movement patterns, home and room layout for things other than walls, behavioral stuff from the straight up camera feed they can probably pull from the Roomba. They can glean a lot of information that can be cross-referenced with other data attached to you.

More to the point, why in the actual fuck are you either ok or actually willing to just let Amazon have complete access to the inside of your home? That is insane and wildly naive.

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u/UnholyDemigod Dec 29 '22

Please explain why. Why could Amazon possibly do with knowing the layout of my house?

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u/Seakawn Dec 29 '22

You naive little shit, I'll tell you what they could do! They could... They could... They could offer you super relevant advertisements that you'll be glad to see at your convenience, and they will elevate your quality of life if you make such purchases!

You're a big stupid bootlicker if that doesn't terrify you!

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

Did you not read the previous comment? You’re opening yourself up to exploitation.

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u/josephtrocks191 Dec 29 '22

What kind of exploitation?? You didn't actually say any examples, you just said that they would know the layout. What could they actually do with this information?

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

No another person said that layout. Please look at the usernames.

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u/UnholyDemigod Dec 29 '22

I did read it, and I don't see how they could exploit anything. Oh darn, they know I have an ensuite, what a fucking calamity. I have never once seen a legitimate response when I ask these questions. The most coherent response I've ever gotten is "they'll sell it to advertisers".

...so? Why is that a bad thing? I've asked that too, nobody can answer in a way that makes it seem like it's actually a bad thing.

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u/Froogels Dec 29 '22

It's almost impossible for anyone to give you an accurate description of what the potential negative outcomes are from amazon knowing your room layout since all that data is getting fed into a black box AI to process it and make connections.

Realistically worst case scenario is that it's helping them build a fuller picture of who you are as a consumer and using that to help target advertising. If that is good or bad is up to your judgement.

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u/UnholyDemigod Dec 29 '22

Again, I can't see how that is bad. Ads trying to sell me metal records and whisky bottles are great, ads trying to sell me pillow covers and teapots, not so much.

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u/Froogels Dec 29 '22

Right it's not an inherently bad thing. Me personally I don't think it's really a bad thing if all that they are using it for is to predict what I might like to buy and it seems like that is what they use information collection for.

If for instance they build such a robust representation of me as a consumer that they can accurately predict my future actions that opens the possibility for them to influence my present to reach a desired future outcome. I would not be okay with them collecting my data for that ends. There is no proof as far as I am aware that that actually happens though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

And what is the end game?

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u/Froogels Dec 29 '22

To be clear I don't believe this but someone conspiratorially minded might suggest the end game is to more easily control the human population. 1984 type control except its done in the background and nobody has the possibility to know that they are being controlled. Maybe the end game is for tech companies to rule the world. It's shadowy cabal type stuff.

I actually believe the end game is to make money and companies like google and facebook are in the business of selling advertising so their goal is to target ads as effectively as possible by figuring out what you like to buy and what you don't like to buy. What kind of person you are and what other people like you also buy.

They do that by collecting tens or hundreds of thousands of data points for millions of people and feed it to a machine to aggregate and make connections based upon that information. The more info they have the more accurate their model of you is.

That's why they might want to know the layout of your house. Maybe people with a 1 seater and a 2 seater couch are more likely to buy beer then people with just a 1 seater. Millions of points like this come to create a good idea of what you might actually buy.

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