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AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology'

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Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' | TechCrunch

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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There’s no observation, just data ingestion.

The AI literally observes the training data
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  Insofar as my computer observes the data on my hard disk. But I suspect you know what I meant.

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