Career Science and Academia as Corporate Propaganda 'on Tap'
Last year: Microsoft 'Studies' Again? Leon Musolff is Writing Papers With Microsoft.
Earlier today: Willis Towers Watson (WTW) Producing More Propaganda for EPO "Cocaine Communication Managers"
About 6 hours ago Dr. Andy Farnell published an article about surveillance. Some portions:
I read today of some astonishing research by Wayne Hoyer and James L. Bayless regarding surveillance capitalism - you know like when you mention something within 15 meters of a smartphone, face-recognition security camera, Alexa, Tesla or any other pervasive surveillance tool and are mercilessly stalked by ads on every device, app, website and social control media site you visit?[...]
They also tried including positive emotional images in ads, such as "pictures of kittens".
Could you make this stuff up? Science is truly dead. And WTF!!! is a "professor of marketing" anyway? Seriously? Is that a job!? You wasted your life, not to mention those of others.
Science is in tatters. Society has degenerated into an infantile state where we are unable to observe and acknowledge absolutely blindingly obvious self-evident truths unless a bunch of reseachers conducted an experiment.
Today Zoe Kleinman at the BBC reports on "AI-powered" toys (not "AI-infected" toys). Apparently, a Cambridge University team found just seven relevant studies worldwide on devices that do this:
Child (5 years old): "I love you"
Toy: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed."
Anyone who needs seven studies to convince them that giving "AI" toys to children, when it's already proven to induce severe mental illness in adults, cannot claim to be a scientist. It is disingenuous and professionally derelict to ignore common sense and disguise belief in the need for "scientific evidence" as a shield for corporate abuse at a massive scale.
Meanwhile the creepy marketing "scientists" speculate that over the long run the "marketing risk" might diminish.