• deafboy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    In an alternative dimension:

    Facebook: “announces mind reading headset to animate imaginary body parts”

    People: “Nice try, CIA!”, “That’s big gender propaganda!”, “I’m not going to connect my brain to the internet!” “Not guilty, your honor. Facebook made me do it via the headset.”

    • Sloan the Serval@pawb.social
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      10 months ago

      To be fair, if Metaverse did integrate something like this they would definitely record telemetry data “for development purposes”.

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        10 months ago

        No, they’d straight up say they were doing it to target ads at you. They think it’s a good thing, because we get “relevant” ads.

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          10 months ago

          They’d do both, and most likely be intentionally dishonest about which is which. Or just not give a shit, the fines aren’t that large for a behemoth like them.