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The dirty underbelly of AI

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Claims from this post (1)

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  1. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    Recommendation or value judgment

    “But here’s someone else the AI industry is taking advantage of: you.”

    Our reading: The AI industry is taking advantage of ordinary people, in this context through harvesting their personal data.

    No horizon

    Scope: in the context of collecting personal data (Meta, Google, Zoom, carmakers)

Held from this post (2)

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  • The criteria are ambiguous. Our reading, not assessed: The current AI paradigm needs so much data that the entire public internet does not seem to be enough.
  • The criteria are ambiguous. Our reading, not assessed: An AI paradigm that could learn much of what it needed to be effective in the world without going through all of a person's personal data is imaginable but does not yet exist.