That's very insightful satire.

The idea of it could work as a science fiction novel, if it weren't so plausibly true.

Anyone else recall the "sell it by zealot" guidance of the very early internet commercial push? It's deja vu all over again

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GorkFangirl a day ago | parent | next [-]

That's the thing that creeps me out the most about the entire ordeal, the more I think about it the more serious it gets to me to the point where I can't imagine it going down any other way anymore... What worries me a lot too is that all the same people that poured endless money into fake tech companies a la WeWork and Uber 10 years ago are at it again in the AI space right now too.

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DaveZale a day ago | parent [-]

the usual suspects?

Re: Uber ... this very aggressive growth company sold out its customers to facilitate adoption in urban areas. "let us do business in your city, and we'll supply our customer data to your police" kind of deal.

With some AI companies, the amount of personal data extracted from users is even greater. The same deals involving selling out users' privacy ?

The fact that privacy is so elusive now, alarms me. We need to think twice about what we search for, which browser to use, whether it's worth a trip to the library, etc. Not because I have anything to hide, but because the targeted ads on some topics are so nasty, even borderline abusive. Some forced me to avoid Chrome browser, for sure.

	▲	GorkFangirl 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah... it's really dystopian... as if we're getting boiled alive. And nobody seems to care

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Lammy a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The idea of it could work as a science fiction novel, if it weren't so plausibly true.

Have you played Mass Effect? https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Saren_Arterius#Alliance_w...

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rvz a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe this definition of "AGI" is satire.