[louison11]

- Big Tech becoming more privacy-friendly (just like Apple who just enabled end-to-end encryption on iCloud)

- Mostly a lot of the same stagnation we've seen in the tech industry for the past 5 years.

- Some sprouts of innovation around generative language, probably around fact checking, detecting and removing "hallucinations" from models. But probably not anything significant enough to significantly shift anything for every day users (probably have to wait 2025 for that).

- Crypto folks will keep believing that they're building the future, although everything indicates that Big Tech is finding a way to become safer, more private, without having to become fully decentralized.

[GartzenDeHaes]

> Big Tech becoming more privacy-friendly

Privacy is not having a camera in your bedroom. Promises to protect the data collected from the camera are meaningless.

[dopeboy]

I truly think we're hitting a tipping point with privacy. Am optimistic as you on point (1).

[alex_duf]

I'm feeling the opposite way, would you like to share what makes you optimistic about it?

[louison11]

As I shared, Apple just enabled E2E on iCloud. Dropbox also just acquired BoxCryptor. People increasingly demand privacy and use third party services that provide it. It's actually not that hard or expensive to implement. It seems to me that Big Tech is realizing that, and not wanting to lose market share, thus moving in that direction. There are also many improvements in AI differential learning and other techniques that can be used to still learn from data and exploit value from it, while respecting people's privacy (Example: your iPhone recognizes objects and people in pictures, but the data is never sent to Apple.)