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Fudge! I rode Spirit once and it was roughly 10 yrs ago. Yall think they got my info??
This a bullet point for the AI regulations
Adding more random words to the word guessing machine will most certainly finally make it smarter
I fully expect the word guessing machine to solve global hunger, the climate crisis, and all genetic disorders as soon as we feed it one more data set!
Just one more dataset bro. I swear
it will also help us save electric energy to heal the climate!
Everyone loses here. It's no longer possible to trust any organisation with your data, because no matter what they say or do, they have no control over what will happen to it if they ever become insolvent.
GDPR should in theory prohibit them from putting it for sale in the first place in a bankruptcy scenario, but if they are bound to disappear, there's no one to go after so idk...
I'm mentioning European regulations in a post about an American airline company just because you said any, and yeah, I'm bound to disagree there.
In any case, I already didn't trust any American company since they can be subpoenaed and they are bound by law to give all the data to the government, which looks as or more evil than the general evil American company rn.
There absolutely is, a dissolved company still has history. Find the directors and hang them.
But it's not the company itself putting those assets up for sale. It's the court-approved or court-appointed bankruptcy trustee of that company, executing transactions approved by the court. That's why bankruptcy has to go through court, but it also provides a level of immunity (commonly called "exculpation" in bankruptcy cases) to the individuals actually doing the things ordered by the court.
If it's illegal to do, a court shouldn't be ordering it, so the affected people should have to fight the court order before it happens. But it's not illegal to sell anonymized user data like this, and not illegal to sell employee work-related data, either, in the U.S.
That is insanely cheap.
I'm not sure how, but buying a company for just the data should be illegal.
They didn't, they bought the data, and only the data, in a bankruptcy auction.
Everything is on sale for the highest bidder in an effort to get as much money to pay the company debt as possible. Buying the actual company would be suicide, as then you also get all that debt.
I think that’s the point, they could keep it afloat as competition for what they paid
If you mean the 10 million could have kept Spirit afloat then I'm going to disagree and say that 10 million is a drop in the bucket for their cash flow needs.
$10m is probably less than their hourly fuel costs.
Unfortunately even though that isn't the case here, companies get bought up for parts all the time.
Court records reveal that the Google purchase includes 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, 7.2 billion records for competitors' flights, 7.5 billion passenger transaction records from 2008, and more than 175,000 employee records from 1986. Aside from this, the company will also get information on revenue, aircraft operations, employee productivity records, audits and fraud, marketing campaigns, human resources records, project management, and pricing curve data, among others.
This could be a cause of concern for anyone who’s ever transacted with the airline, either as a customer, employee, contractor, or even investor, especially as AI is known for its privacy problems.
Add it to the list of reasons to always use email aliases as well as unique passwords and phone numbers!
And never work for any company ever, apparently.
If my place of business goes bankrupt, is Google going to get access to my employment records? The memes I share in work chats? My disciplinary record? My bank account details I used for direct deposit?
If someone puts that they worked at Spirit on a resume, what is the likelihood that job openings will start to query these things to see how far they can lowball someone on wages, or whether they're a "difficult" employee? This is shit that runs the risk of following someone for life.
The endgame is eugenics too. Only the "perfrct" human gets allowed to survive, making it impossible for people with even a small mark on their record to survive.
That... Feels a bit much. We can agree data collection like this is bad without conspiracy theories like that.
You can deduce from the way behave, and what they say.
Peter Thiel did mention humans will end up like horses going to the glue factory.
There's currently an ethnic cleansing of America, and disability/medicare is intentionaly being withdrawn.
“Anonymized”
Do you know how easy it is to deanonimize it? Clearly the regulators and politicians don’t care.
Especially if you're Google. Matching "anonymous" travel activity to their Google Maps, login, Chrome, and Gmail history should be pretty trivial with a high success rate.
To them it's a feature, not a bug.
Shouldn't something like that be illegal? The data-sharing authorization certainly applied only to the airline.
Sue them.
I mean, should if you can defend your rights. Anyway, posted from Moscow, Russia, so I'm stopping.
"something something transferrable something something"
Ah I forgot this isn't EU.
Certainly only good things coming from this news.
So when Gemini is used to plan the next 9/11, surely someone will object. Right?
Im sure gemini will offer "thoughts and prayers"
Weird to think there was data Google didn't already have.
These are becoming (more) absurd. Like what the fuck is the benefit of this training data? Now the Gemini can statistically generate new ways to euphemistically refer to poor people?
Or Amazon scraping the "data" out of Twitch streams. I barely see the appeal of watching someone elese play a game. I mean, at least they're a real person I can conceivably pester with chat messages. Why would I watch a fake person play a game that doesn't exist?
People give money to streamers. There's plenty of data to mine there regarding what the streamer was doing or saying vs how many donations they were getting. You can correlate that across different kinds of streams or streamers and get a good idea of how to maximize extraction from a given population.
Just one more data source, bro! Trust me, if we just train our models on more bankrupt airlines it brings us so much closer to actual artificial intelligence!
I have to imagine the goal of the Twitch stuff would be to make something like AI VTuber or something. Less about the game itself, but more about the creator to be replicated.
they bought reddits data for 60mil. and apparently googles needs more from reddit, hence why they lockdown on accounts limited per phone, and likely is behind reddits forcing login, they ran out of data to extract, im guessing the amount of bots/AI posting is is limiting actual users on the sites.
We should profit from the purchases we make that become data for someone else to profit from.
I hate this timeline.
Disgusting.
when the AI bubble pops they can still use this data for personalized advertising.