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[-] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 165 points 3 months ago

Personally I'd say every single product and service being transparently wrapped in a personal information honeypot

[-] weimaraner_of_doom@piefed.social 120 points 3 months ago

Just give me your ID bro. It's totally to protect the kids bro.

[-] buycurious@lemmy.world 112 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In case someone needs help:

Uber/Lyft

Airbnb

Bitcoin/Crypotocurrency

ChatGPT/LLMs

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 77 points 3 months ago

Because you have 2/4 general terms:

  1. Rideshare
  2. Short term rentals
  3. Crypto
  4. LLM
[-] exu@feditown.com 66 points 3 months ago

Cryptocurrency not Cryptography to disambiguate again

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 39 points 3 months ago

"Rideshare" is also the least accurate term used to dodge regulations. It is just a taxi/cab. You are paying someone to get you from one place to another. They aren't sharing their ride, they were never going where you are going before you told them to.

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[-] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago

shouldnt 4 also include AI generated images?

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Better term would probably be generative AI to also cover music, video and my grandmother's soul.

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[-] g_blob@programming.dev 108 points 3 months ago

I like those note-taking apps that require my location for a better user experience

[-] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 39 points 3 months ago

What do you mean you don't want location tags in your notes?

[-] g_blob@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

Omg stop it, you are making me nervous. Okay, I will Accept terms and conditions

[-] weimaraner_of_doom@piefed.social 65 points 3 months ago

Forgot "Glorified Pump-&-Dump scheme" (NFT's)

[-] bisby@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

NFTs are basically Bitcoin and fall under fake money for criminals.

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago

Nah it's worse. Bitcoin actually has legitimate uses. (Yes, they are a minority of actual usage, but they exist.) NFTs are only useful for speculation, gambling and money laundering.

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[-] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Stamp collecting for criminals

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[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 57 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I personally hate the "thanks to AI you now can speak to your dead relatives" ones. Especially those ones which try to spin it like a personal story for the developer of the app. Oh shut up, you would sell your own mother for money. And also you are too late to jump on that bandwagon so get lost, we have enough of you leeches.

[-] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Literally the exact plot of a black mirror episode.

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 11 points 3 months ago

I swear there are some people watching Black Mirror and furiously taking notes

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

And it was such a heartbreaking experience, I dont know who saw that and said yes daddy please.

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[-] T156@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it's clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It's dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children's media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?

You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don't pay the rent, they'll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.

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[-] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

The Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

[-] brewery@feddit.uk 29 points 2 months ago

How about

  • reinventing trains but worse
  • rocketing amount of space launches filling up junk
  • we deliver everything but once we take over it'll all be crap rip off products (for slave wages)
  • we deliver any food by people who can't drive (for slave wages)
  • we'll create algorithms to enforce society divisions and hurt mental health of children
  • we'll take over a popular platform and make it even more disgusting and fascist
[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Need to add illegal gambling to the list

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 16 points 3 months ago

Naw, crime is legal now.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

It so happens that stuff useful for criminals is sometimes also useful for political dissidents or simply people who consider the country's laws too oppressive. Encrypted communication is another example of this.

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[-] lena@gregtech.eu 21 points 3 months ago

To be fair, all money is fake and used by criminals

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 10 points 3 months ago

The leader of the country that prints the world's reserve currency is a convicted felon so that tracks.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Yeah but is it destroying the environment? Also yes.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Where's "video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them"?

Where's "removal of a common phone feature, because if you don't buy a $528 external DAC and a $9164 planar headphones, you'll be okay with a pair of raycons"?

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[-] tomiant@piefed.social 20 points 3 months ago

What would we do without capitalist innovation? Before capitalism, nothing was invented. Look at us now!

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[-] reboot6675@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 months ago

"Exploiting immigrants to deliver food"

[-] acantharea@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wait till you learn about their latest innovation!

Exploiting individuals from other countries to bypass labor laws in the country of business operation via distributed outsourcing. Why even pay minimum wage in the US?

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

I like this meme every time I see it here on anarchist forums.

[-] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

well now we can add on: “illegal gambling on literally everything”
and “1984 level surveillance being sold to the government instead of being done by them directly so somehow legal”
… maybe something about giant ai networks of murder robots waging war?
fuck why did we have to get the worst cyberpunk sci-fi future….

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[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I like this comment every time I see it posted in response to this meme. Then I hit subscribe, then I SMASH THAT BELL ICON SO YOUR MOBILEK SHIVERS WITH ECSTACY IN YOUR POCKET WHENEVER I POST AN UPDATE

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[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

Hmmm ... the technology that is literally driving people insane so a few investors can make advertising money

[-] maplesaga@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fake money for criminals is speaking of USD here?

Just because it grows at 8% doesnt mean its fake, its also fake because the Fed is a corrupt institution that stopped caring about measuring real inflation a long time ago.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 26 points 3 months ago

or it's, y'know, crypto

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[-] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Don't forget about the tech/government surveillence state that is all up in your ass

[-] PointyFluff@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

I prefer NAZI-BOT SPAM, like most users of lemmy.ml

fuck off, nazi-bot-OP

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

People chose the one option that's able to literally take everyone's jobs away from them someday?

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[-] homoludens@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago

What about dystopian surveillance tech?

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