Comment on Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point
artyom@piefed.social 7 hours agoYeah I did say it was a neat art project but the title also says “to prove a big point”. What does it prove?
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Well… from the ….article….
Weckert describes the work as a form of hacktivism aimed at exposing how fragile and influenceable data systems can be. By manipulating something as widely trusted as Google Maps, he wanted to make the hidden mechanics of algorithms visible and understandable.
_NetNomad@fedia.io 6 hours ago
i think what artyom is getting at is that showing google maps works the way we already knew it worked isn't much of a point, let alone a big one
artyom@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Precisely.
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Maybe ‘we’ know that, but certainly not the world at large. Also, it shows something interesting that some may not have thought of. You might even be able to use this for some protests or activism. Idk.