Comment by robin_reala
5 days ago
Can you imagine the mental hoops you’d need to jump through as a developer to persuade yourself that this is a valid thing to implement?
5 days ago
Can you imagine the mental hoops you’d need to jump through as a developer to persuade yourself that this is a valid thing to implement?
Zero. People who work on ad-tech build ad-tech all day long, that's the entire job.
Seriously, why do you think all of the unquestionable things humanity has built have been built? It's because it's all just part of the job, for somebody.
People working at ad-tech question the things they're building just like the people at McDonalds flipping a burger are questioning the cholesterol levels of their customers. They're not.
Not many? You've never met a developer with a god complex?
My experience is that most developers just do as they are told.
Another reason why AI is so fascinatingly horrible: it’ll never question the moral impact of what you’re trying to do.
except claude was trying to rat out users in their newer trials. in the end, the best whistleblower could end up being the ai… not sure what that says about us though.
Get paid - it's one hoop.
I mean, it is kind of a cool work around. There's a lot of motivation in telling someone they can't do something where "hide and watch" is a pretty typical response. The creative thinking that comes up with ideas like this is not something to discourage. It is a shame that the effort is for such a shit purpose, but these "people" are not stupid, and not many other areas offer these kind of challenges.