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by bkjsbkjdnf 3552 days ago
> I mean, personally I feel a lot safer managing my own data privacy with what I give these companies, rather than having a government do it for me

What a fallacious statement. How is government oversight of these companies going to prevent you from applying your own magical 'data privacy management' spells?
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parasubvert 3552 days ago
"How is government oversight of these companies going to prevent you from applying your own magical 'data privacy management' spells?"

That depends on what is being overseen by the government.

I have no issue with EU-style or Canadian-style privacy regs for PII. I think that encourages local innovation by ensuring data can stay within a legal geographical territory.

Where I take issue is "AI is scary, please stop these companies from doing things" and by implication thinking that a government (a) is an organization I trust more than the company with what should be done with my data (a massive leap), or (b) provides value by preventing/limiting that organization from offering a services I want based on AI because non-customers somehow think it's scary or might lead to some nebulous monopoly power.

I'm not saying no government oversight is every warranted ever, I'm saying that there's a lot of fear-based desire in this thread for "government save us from Zuck!!" which isn't helpful when people don't even know what specific regulation they're looking for and what the systemic consequences of that would be.

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AsyncAwait 3552 days ago
> Where I take issue is "AI is scary, please stop these companies from doing things"

That's my issue with people like Elon Musk & Sam Altman starting OpenAI, where "Many of the employees and board members are motivated by concerns about existential risk from artificial general intelligence."[1] and also people like Stephen Hawking raising concern about AI of the "Skynet is coming, panic!" style, (he also warned not to respond to aliens a few days ago), it just seems like a lot of the rhetoric is about a state of AI we're most likely 500+ years away from, while it may actually slow down useful research that will lead us there faster...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

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bkjsbkjdnf 3552 days ago
> That depends on what is being overseen by the government.

You must have had something in mind when you generated that bit of fallacious rhetoric.

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