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Seeing what I play, what I play, how often, when? Basically everything. What is that not privacy at all? They can analyze every key stroke, can read what I do, which games I play, how i decide to do anything. Besides, they would see every chat I do in the games too. They can see my private Steam account in example and could analyze everything on screen. Which is usually only visible to my family or parts only to me.
Using Nvidia GeForce Now is massive privacy infringing, if we believe they do all of this. Or they could if they wanted to, you give them access at least.
I don't think you're wrong to consider this a privacy problem, but lots of people happily stream their gameplay publicly, so not everyone's going to have the same expectation of privacy.
But streaming means they are prepared and they know. Its a decision and therefore not violating privacy, because streaming is not a privacy act.
All of that was the same privacy infringement before AI was involved. I'm asking what changed?
I don't understand what you mean by that. So you agree with me. I did not say anything changed because of Ai, and you agree on this. It is privacy infringement. But... with Ai of today, they have a huge incentive and they can actually parse and use the data. I mean is it really that unbelievable? They have the capacity to do it now, before that, they didn't. So this changed if you ask to me.