They seize your phone and pull photographs, text messages, messenger logs, maps data, etc. The messages are inculpatory.
What do you want to say? That the extraction method is unreliable, that the Police have incorrect logs? Imply that the text messages have been extracted with errors, somehow?
That simply isn't the case. The data extracted is both reliable and probative. This is a copy and paste.
People already have unhealthy parasocial relationships with influencers.
It seems clear that people (lonely/depressed people especially) will overdose on this sort of thing once it is developed, commercialised, and less bleeding edge.
It's vapour filling the place of human connection. It's stevia. It's not going to give you cancer, but it's still unhealthy and will certainly exceed the parameters of entertainment.
Had HN been around when personal computing dropped, I imagine that we could have made some attempt at a steel man argument justifying such a purpose. Even if that argument was 'hobbyists', there was something to be said.
There is something like this in 'A Fire Upon the Deep' by Vernor Vinge; his intergalactic societies translate their alien languages - and incompatible methods of expression - using an application similar to this one.
If you haven't come across Doug Engelbart yet, I highly recommend it. He invented the mouse (yes, that mouse), and was a staunch believer in chorded keyboards.
If you have an Audible subscription, you may have noticed the same behaviour there.
Large numbers of books labelled as 'free with your membership', which likely only cost Amazon the price of delivering the files. Which makes sense, because once I have paid for my credit the worst outcome financially is that I use it.
They seize your phone and pull photographs, text messages, messenger logs, maps data, etc. The messages are inculpatory.
What do you want to say? That the extraction method is unreliable, that the Police have incorrect logs? Imply that the text messages have been extracted with errors, somehow?
That simply isn't the case. The data extracted is both reliable and probative. This is a copy and paste.