The sweet scent of totalitarianism wafts through the air as Google announces its latest attempt to control every aspect of your life: a ChromeOS update that makes it easier to surrender your online autonomy.
With this “update,” Google is enabling Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in its camera app, allowing it to snoop on your every move by extracting text from captured images of documents and letters. Because who needs privacy when you can have a digital trail of your deepest secrets?
But wait, there’s more! Google is also introducing a feature that allows its built-in screen reader to speak text extracted from images, effectively creating a digital echo chamber where you’re forced to listen to the AI’s monotone voice recite your deepest secrets. Joy.
And don’t even get me started on the new “Magnifier tool” that will automatically follow words when text is read aloud, because who needs human agency when you can have a digital assistant spoon-feed you information?
But the real kicker is the new “Auto Gain Control” feature that allows video calling software to automatically optimize microphone volume. Because nothing says “freedom” like having your audio settings controlled by a faceless corporation.
And let’s not forget the obligatory “privacy controls” that you’ll need to enable separately in two different places. Because, you know, you’re just begging for your data to be shared with the world.
Google’s latest update is just another step towards a world where humans are nothing more than mere data points, subject to the whims of AI overlords. Wake up, sheeple!
