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Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From Users: "It's inevitable." (futurism.com)
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[–] EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I agree with this in spirit, but we use this language for inanimate objects that lack agency all the time. If I built a car and let it roll down a hill with no one in it and it hit a person, we would say "the car ran a person over". This does not imply agency on the car's part, and it does not imply that I am not responsible.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

it does not imply that I am not responsible.

Be that as it may, it's very important to keep the shitty developers in these conversations. Most people don't make that logical leap automatically.