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In Black Mirror, they pause the advertisement when you disable the sound.
So maybe you'll eventually have to use a separate sound system whereby they cannot detect that you're muting it.
Then, they'll track your eyes and require you to watch the screen :)
At which point do you stop consuming?
Check out the recent controversy over Activision and Call of Duty. Evidently the game code requires access to your webcam and the company has patents on using your gameplay to train a bot that play like you do, then uses the idle time to make the bot play while you are away. This bulks up the pool of players ensuring you are matched with people resulting in a good experience for you. There's also a patent detecting your emotional state while you view their in game store, possibly for adjusting price to influence you to buy or spend more.
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>then uses the idle time to make the bot play while you are away
Surely they're better off using a GPU cluster to do training like every other AI company?
What a tragic state of affairs! Computationally detecting human emotion is an open problem in human-computer interaction, and has been for a while now. I wish I had the hubris and audacity to file a process patent which claims to be able to do so.
I do not watch TV but it was in the news.
MBAs think they can enshittfy into perpetuity, but eventually people have enough and leave to whatever the competition is.
The tech cultists won't, will always think "urrhurr let's counter this corporate restriction / government regulation with <stupid tech solution #921>.
It's so rewarding to do simpler things in life instead, f.e. growing your own food and not partake in this "more-and-more pervasive tech spread" BS.