Oddbean new post about | logout
 Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’ https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/signals-meredith-whittaker-ai-is-fundamentally-a-surveillance-technology/ 
 @425a31b8 any commercial product can be, but you don’t have to use chatgpt et al. I’ve got a model running on my PC, with data I trained it on. 
 @425a31b8 Uh...  It's more like surveillance technology goes hand-in-hand with what people call "AI."  LLMs take data and incorporate it into their model to be regurgitated later and one of other things called AI processes surveillance data then """"intelligently""" decides what to do with it.  Really the fundamental issue there is the actual surveillance done in the first place not the "AI" being applied to it.