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by Lordarminius
3569 days ago
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I see this beyond the issue of tracking. It is one of relentless collection of data. Google is a private company, even if it were a government, it has no right to all that personal data. It collects it because it can. With a little imagination it can become clear that so much data cannot be a good thing. Can the information be used to repress political opposition? Can it be used to enforce an agenda of say eugenics? Can a business be given undue advantage by promoting its "recommendations"? Can minorities and their views be suppressed? In a few years with the maturing of AI to fine-tune the processes we will all think alike,behave alike, conform alike, to the wishes of our overlords who know who we are, where we are, what we eat,what illnesses we have who we f..k, what religion we practice, what books we read, and so on ... Maybe that fellow Orwell was on to something. See also fixermark and jtrip below |
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On one hand we have people claiming that filter bubbles lead to the collapse of civilization, and on the other we have that the same services will lead to conformity.
Based on current trends, it seems like the filter bubble problem is winning. So maybe an all-knowing AI Google would be what saves us? ;)
The alternative view of course is that there won't be one AI, there will be many. And they will compete to please people more so people are more likely to use their services.
If you want to go hyperbolic again, Brave New World is how it ends. Personally, I'm more than happy to trade information for services that work well.