The sound of a thousand digital twin insurance companies being born (to protect your real assets from digital vandalism, of course).
Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon
May 2024, Ars Technica
This isn't graffiti, but it's like graffiti; defacing public property, or property that's not yours ... Is map data public or private property? The underlying data is sometimes public, or other people's private, but not the company that makes the map. Anyway, graffiti is a form of rebellion against a system that takes things away from you, only to give it back to "everyone", and where "everyone" is really just the people left over who can afford to own things. Who owns the data?
Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal
May 2025, Ars Technica
The words "user hostile" have become rampant on the big wordbox we call the internet. In this case, a website that runs a chat forum about computers decided that the millions of hours worth of users putting really complex computer problems into machine-readable text for other users would be really valuable if we instead gave it to one single company who owns a really big reading machine. The users who did all the work here (value = work) decided nah, let's corrupt the data by changing our posts. Not just deleting their posts, but changing the right answers to completely nonsensical answers so wrong they're dangerous. And that is the future of the internet.
Image credit: AI Art - Holding Hands 5 - 2023
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