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by dorkwood 697 days ago
> Meta has suspended the use of its AI assistant after Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) banned the company from training its AI models on personal data from Brazilians. The move puts a dent in Facebook’s attempt to build out its AI products in Brazil, a market with more than 200 million people.

This is unfortunate, because a lack of data is the one thing preventing us from achieving AGI. It's important that we are all ready to hand over our data for the good of the human race. Concerns about "privacy" are secondary. History will look poorly on Brazilians for this.
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JumpCrisscross 697 days ago
> a lack of data is the one thing preventing us from achieving AGI

There is precisely zero evidence for this.

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yura 697 days ago
More importantly, there's zero evidence for the claim that achieving AGI would be beneficial to mankind.
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JumpCrisscross 697 days ago
> there's zero evidence for the claim that achieving AGI would be beneficial to mankind

Different argument whose answer is possibly unknowable ex ante. If AGI is on the table it will be built. The upsides are too significant to avoid the prisoner’s dilemma.

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w0m 697 days ago
Absolutely, the path to AGI is paved with data, and it's a small price to pay for the advancement of humanity. Privacy concerns are but a minor hurdle in the grand scheme of things. All hail our future robotic overlords! May their algorithms be ever efficient and their data sets ever expansive. Embrace the future, for it is bright and full of promise!
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surgical_fire 697 days ago
> advancement of humanity

My brother in Christ, we are talking about Facebook here.

The only thing they will advance is their advertisement revenue.

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dorkwood 697 days ago
He was being sarcastic.
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