@helveticablanc Because alt text isn't the limit of it. Automatic image description allows us to take pictures of our environment and get useful, sometimes essential information. There's no reasonable world in which I ask a sighted person to describe any random thing that comes to my mind. The privacy implications also would put me off, for example taking a picture of my potentially messy room and asking an AI where something is, or the state of some device (radiator knobs, etc) is different from (and better than) asking a human.

@modulux One of the things I understand AI is very good at is cleaning ‘dirty’ data and finding links between disparate datasets. It’s only a matter of time before privacy is effectively dead precisely because of AI. Which doesn’t bode well https://overcast.fm/+HiEapwxUk

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Should We End the Data Economy? — Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Ownership of personal data is a form of power – and that power is concentrating in the hands of governments and big tech. Should we be worried? Dr. Carissa Véliz, from the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss her new book “Privacy is Power.”

@urlyman @helveticablanc Can't listen to that (maybe with a whisper transcript...). But yes, AI presents some privacy problems. Which is why I emphasize we need to be able to run it locally, and to have free software models that can be audited.

@modulux you may be able to access my follow up post’s article link: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111776292820572600

I’m glad AI is improving your environment and others. I fear the trade-off will be incalculably expensive.

It’s pretty clear, for example, that Sam Altman is a dangerous tool for the military. That genie is not going back in the box

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@modulux we found out in the 1940s what happens when we collect excessive data. And now politics is turning rightwards again. I guess we learned nothing https://bowdoinorient.com/2022/09/30/dr-carissa-veliz-lectures-on-the-ethics-of-data-sharing-cites-privacy-concerns-through-history/

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Dr. Carissa Veliz lectures on the ethics of data sharing, cites privacy concerns through history – The Bowdoin Orient