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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 147 points 3 months ago

The videos are never associated with a user's identity and are deleted after the verification process. Audio is never recorded.

I actually believe them. It's gonna start out this way. But in a year or two, they'll quietly slip in a provision stating they will hold on to the images for a short time for security purposes, then they will say that they will associate your image with your identity to make it more secure, then Google's AI will know everything about everyone (and sell the info to the highest bidder)

[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 79 points 3 months ago

I believe them as well from a very literal perspective. The video will be deleted but the metadata that is created from the video will not.

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[-] br3d@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

This will be like the proof of age face scans. Yes, the VIDEO is deleted, but the unique biometric code describing your face sure as hell won't be deleted. Focusing on deleting the video has got to be a deliberate distraction

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It should be considered a universal law of corporate behavior: any information that has theoretical value will eventually be sold.

Even if current management has no intention of exploiting it, they’ll be replaced by the board, or the division and its data will be spun off and sold for its IP—that’s just corporate nature (i.e., the purpose of a system is what it does).

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

~~Don't be evil~~

[-] undefinedValue@programming.dev 21 points 3 months ago

That’s just v1. At some point they’ll realize that bots can deepfake a human waving and they’re going to want to truly verify it’s you by verifying the position of moles on your body… Then they’ll have to save your data… to secure your account!

Soon they’ll realize to get good mole data they’ll need you to show more skin, as some people don’t have much on their face and their clothing could be hiding those juicy datapoints.

That’s when v2 hits. Flash google your titties to secure your account, don’t worry it’s super secure and we never share your titties with law enforcement agencies unless it’s required by law!

You’ll be walking through your local library because tech has gone to far and you need to unplug but as you walk by the rows of shared computers it’ll all be old people flashing their titties at the screen to continue watching ads on YouTube.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 96 points 3 months ago

Calling it: In the future we will learn that they have been using it to gather face recognition data and have been using it to track their users in the real world by partnering with the likes of Flock.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 months ago

Reasonable bet if they didn't already have root on devices in people's pockets, with cameras pointing at their faces for hours per day. Along with GPS, cell, WiFi and Bluetooth location services.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 13 points 3 months ago

The video gets deleted, they say. But they don't say what happens to the data derived from that video. Training models and such.

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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 89 points 3 months ago

I will not do this. Whatever services require this i will not use.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

If I have to do this to log into my email one last time as I'm migrating out, I will write off all emails there as lost. If my phone makes me do it to unlock it, I will go out and by an iPhone on the spot. That makes me want to puke typing that out, because I hate iPhones, but I'll do it.

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[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 71 points 3 months ago

Google can verify I'm a human by not using Google.

[-] Substance_P@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I would love to not have YT in every corner of the internet though. I wonder how developers of Youtube forks will deal with this?

[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 9 points 3 months ago

You need another YouTube. Free for anyone to post, the same volume, the same storage. Nebula is elite and paid. You and I can’t post on it. The others I’ve seen contain a handful of conspiracy theorists and Linux people.

[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Conspiracy theorists and Linux people? You sonofabitch I’m in

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[-] missingno@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago

The amount of storage and bandwidth Youtube needs is something no competitor could ever hope to match.

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[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 43 points 3 months ago
[-] lemmysmash@piefed.social 38 points 3 months ago
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[-] Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app 32 points 3 months ago

The fuck it will

[-] Asafum@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

The only hand gesture I'm giving Google is:

🖕

[-] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 months ago

Do Google employees actually do anything other than sit around thinking of ways to make things worse? In the last few years we've had web environment integrity (thankfully that one seems to have been dropped), gutting the AOSP to the point where it's practically unusable on its own, Android developer verification, play integrity, QR code captchas and now this

[-] AppleMist@feddit.uk 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It says in the docs:

"## Accessibility

For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives."

So it seems you can just do a different task if you don't want to do the hand thing anyway.

Edit: obligatory F google still of course.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 19 points 3 months ago

For now.

Also the last time I tried using the audio option on recaptcha it felt like a psychotic break.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Further reason to avoid google's shit like the fuckin plague.

The videos are never associated with a user’s identity and are deleted after the verification process. Audio is never recorded.

My fat fucking ass do any of this. Google is just as data hungry as everyone else, they will absolutely save it, and feed it to their AI to enhance their ability to generate realistic people.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 3 months ago

Exactly. In a few years, there will be some breach, and it will come out that Google "accidentally" saved everything, and they are shocked and appalled that the gosh darn AI that did it.

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[-] replicat@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Guess I'm not a human anymore

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[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

I don't have a child, but if I a did have one, and they walked naked in front of the webcam, could I go after Google for CP?

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[-] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 21 points 3 months ago

The fuck it will

[-] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Are webcams that ubiquitous nowadays? My monitors never had one, and I could never be arsed to buy an external one, but perhaps I'm the weird outlier here.

[-] Unboxious@ani.social 23 points 3 months ago

You're an outlier simply by being a desktop computer user instead of a laptop, phone, or tablet user.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

the world would be a lot better if people went back to sitting at desks to use the computer/internet.

[-] WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago
[-] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Think I'll finish migrating away from google this weekend.

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago

People without hands suddenly non human

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

"Rest assured, the video is TOTALLY deleted, bro... but we will take about 120 still screenshots per second as a backup."

"Oh weird, if you look at these screenshots real fast it's almost like they move, haha, fun!!"

[-] ReverendIrreverence@piefed.social 16 points 3 months ago

Jokes on them. I run Linux on a 2017 MacBook Air and the camera doesn't work

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago
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[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago

The fuck it will.

[-] Kintarian@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago
[-] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 10 points 3 months ago

What Webcam?

[-] Aneb@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Hahahahahaha nope.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

The fuck they will

[-] Intheflsun@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Do they have any idea the sheer volume of penis helicopters they are going to record by doing this?

[-] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Headlines in a year from now "Google's Contractor for Recaptcha Video Analysis suffering PTSD after seeing so many dicks and assholes"

[-] MisterCurtis@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives.

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