Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology'
Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology'
Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith
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By that reasoning, every personal data collecting business is a surveillance technology. Not that I disagree, mind.
It’s inherently linked to surveillance because you need to collect enourmous amounts of data to train the models, which you won’t get from people sending feedback voluntarily.
You couldn't get anyone to volunteer their personal information to feed this machine. Then again, people are handing over their retinal data to some shady startup so who am I kidding.
They aren't really getting people to volunteer their information now. There's a sign on the door, but no actual proper agreement - no formal contract with consideration. They basically distract people with something shiny while they pick our pockets, rummage through our wallets and copy everything inside.
It is, and governments buy it