myrmepropagandist
If we have so much good AI tech why can't anyone make a spell check that I can't stump?
A few times a week I must go to the dictionary (like a cavewoman!) or search the web since I've mangled some word in such a way that there are no suggestions. It's just "wrong" what's wrong with it? Who knows!
Could it be a scientific name and just not in the dictionary? Maybe! Could it be an obscure word with a pretentious UK spelling? Probably! Could it be wrong? Also probably.
Do this first AI lords.
powersoffour
@futurebird @cyberlyra Googling "where are my packages" would, at one time, return links to USPS tracking based on Gmail results. I haven't tried it in a while but I seem to recall it got disabled. So the capability is there, maybe?
myrmepropagandist
@cyberlyra I thought about the data safety aspect— but in the end it’s not really a secure wall just an inconvenient one: Nothing is stopping some company from using the last book I listed to to serve me ads: *so why can I get at least the same benefit from my own damn data* ?
Janet Vertesi
@futurebird As I see it, the competitive walls between these companies is an opportunity for ensuring my data doesn’t move between them. I am happy these apps don’t “work” across their boundaries, as I can use that Balkanization strategically.
Data brokerage has highly consolidated and shifted since it started in the early ‘teens—it’s just meta and Google now. The stuff at the seams, they know, but those biggest companies have a stranglehold on their own data.
myrmepropagandist
The second thing that still can't be done is more of a general issue:
Ask Alexa to add an event to your Google calendar? Can't be done.
Ask Siri the author of the last audiobook you listened to? Can't be done!
Ask Google when your package will arrive from Amazon? Can't do it!
If you think "Well of course you can't do that, what company would aid the competition?" That's just my point.
Meanwhile the databrokers have a profile of you that includes all of these things.
FeralRobots
@powersoffour @futurebird @cyberlyra
Thinking this could violate data privacy laws in the EU & in a number of US states. So, not surprised (& in fact conditionally pleased) that the capability is no longer there.
powersoffour
@FeralRobots @futurebird @cyberlyra makes sense!
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