The social media company, Smithereen, is all too familiar in our industry. This fictional social media company is supposed to represent Twitter. When a smithereen employee (Jaden) was inside his workplace, trying to reach his boss, you can see that an area with a screen filled with hashtags, which is very much like Twitter. There …
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Facebook has recently made an admission that they have hired human contractors to listen to their users’ recording on Facebook Messenger without their acknowledgment. These users supposedly thought artificial intelligence was the only thing hearing their conversation. Facebook is not the only company guilty of this. It turned out that Amazon used human contractors for …
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