The big problem with that is that zoning laws in america compartmentalize everything and you don't have many places with intertwined shops/markets with residential areas.
Interesting question. The answer is because people pay to have quasisocial relationships with the OnlyFans providers. On other sites with just videos, you don't get that same feeling.
Basically, people are lonely and will pay to feel seen, heard, or loved.
Is your argument that there is enough free random porn to make it not worth paying for OnlyFans?
The reason I would pay for OnlyFans content, if I could afford it, is that there are specific creators on there that I find particularly attractive, either physically or personality-wise, and I would love to help fund their lifestyle.
This applies to a great deal of white-collar crime. As long as there aren't serious PERSONAL consequences for wrongdoing, just a fine that the company coffers will pay as the cost of doing business, nothing will change. We need to start to put CEOs in actual prison and to forfeit their fortune.
Agreed, that's the only thing that will stop this garbage.
Between companies and banks doing this, our own government allowing civil forfeiture, and the penalties- of there even are any, are a monetary slap on the wrist, what recourse do we have?
We can't even change the laws because money lobbies and always wins.
Why is there an assumption I have a voice activated assistant in my pocket or on my wrist? And certainly, those options come with a "push to talk" feature.
- company builds a profile on your likes and dislikes based on commands you give
- company surreptitiously builds a profile on everything it hears, ostensibly for "training" their ML / AI
- data is viewed by snoopers within the company
- data on public figures is leaked to media / public
- data is sold to other companies you do business with
- data is used to build a "social credit" profile. Say something casuallu offensive? Forget getting that loan!
- data is accidentally leaked. Organized theft rings now know your routine, and the routines of everyone in your city all at once.
Then there are the odd stories of people who are expecting a baby suddenly getting ads for parenting supplies, or gift surprises being spoiled by recommendations, etc.
At the end of the day, FAANG are not my friends. They don't get to know things about me for free, and rarely are the goods they offer worth what they get in exchange.
I make some exceptions, but voice assistants aren't one of them.
> - company surreptitiously builds a profile on everything it hears, ostensibly for "training" their ML / AI
I have yet to see any evidence that any voice-command device is transmitting everything it hears. The data sent by the device is too small to contain audio beyond what was said after the wake word was detected. The hardware does not have the necessary chips to do 24x7 voice to text.
You're totally right that they can do a lot with what they do get, from the audio around when you say the wake word, and from other data that you give them through web surfing, location data, etc., and that's totally a legitimate reason to not have one or to limit one's interaction.
Maybe it's just my accent, but whenever I'm around someone else's device (Alexa most recently) wakes up multiple times and responds to something we didn't say.
The worst part is, when we tell it to stop (potentially flagging it as incorrect), how do we know that conversation isn't being analyzed to "improve" the model? We never used the wake word, so we don't know how long it was listening.
It's hard for me to think of them as anything other than creepy. I want to like them; I like the idea of being able to have the convenience of vocal interactions with technology. But, until I'm convinced that it is entirely on my own terms, that's not going to happen.
As your article states, the wake word (and those phonetically similar to it) may activate the voice recording. But the device isn't recording audio 24/7. Presumably other voice assistants like Siri and Google have made advancements in activation hardware/software/algorithms in the 4 years since that article came out.
See otrahuevada's top-level comment. The life story included in most recipes is not some blogger's attempt to spam you or sell you something. It's a copyright requirement - the only way they can protect their content.
