Bravo — the world is shrinking and we have invited it into our private lives. It will get worse as the abuse of AI’s will allow our photos to become anything another person wants us to do or say.
Very insightful post! I count myself lucky to have mostly avoided this oversharing era while growing up. The video with the children confronting their parents was especially eye opening, they didn't even have a chance to choose whether or not to have an online identity. It made me think of a few additional points that only increase the layers of the dissemination of our data. Our data on social media sites is being mined to develop AI's meaning personal data has been profited from and irrevocably a part of future LLM ecosystems. There is also some evidence that sites like Facebook were explicitly designed by the US gov to act as panopticon surveillance applications and a place to centralize citizen data. Whitney Webb's series "The military origins of Facebook" explain some of this. Crazy to think that what began as innocent sharing of photos and thoughts online have such immense consequences in the real world.
The web and all of its related arms is one of the most important advancements of our civilization ever made, technologically. To your point, I think we are only just beginning to really understand the ramifications of what we have created and unleashed on future generations. The problem is, we are all so immersed in it that it's genuinely difficult to step back and see the forest for the trees.
Not sure about you, but the use of my data and everyone else's to bolster LLM makes me uncomfortable. To what end? A better mimic of a human? There's a great deal to ponder and wonder about as technology advances.
Bravo — the world is shrinking and we have invited it into our private lives. It will get worse as the abuse of AI’s will allow our photos to become anything another person wants us to do or say.
Very insightful post! I count myself lucky to have mostly avoided this oversharing era while growing up. The video with the children confronting their parents was especially eye opening, they didn't even have a chance to choose whether or not to have an online identity. It made me think of a few additional points that only increase the layers of the dissemination of our data. Our data on social media sites is being mined to develop AI's meaning personal data has been profited from and irrevocably a part of future LLM ecosystems. There is also some evidence that sites like Facebook were explicitly designed by the US gov to act as panopticon surveillance applications and a place to centralize citizen data. Whitney Webb's series "The military origins of Facebook" explain some of this. Crazy to think that what began as innocent sharing of photos and thoughts online have such immense consequences in the real world.
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The web and all of its related arms is one of the most important advancements of our civilization ever made, technologically. To your point, I think we are only just beginning to really understand the ramifications of what we have created and unleashed on future generations. The problem is, we are all so immersed in it that it's genuinely difficult to step back and see the forest for the trees.
Not sure about you, but the use of my data and everyone else's to bolster LLM makes me uncomfortable. To what end? A better mimic of a human? There's a great deal to ponder and wonder about as technology advances.