‘AI is reliant on mass surveillance’ and we should be cautious, warns head of messaging app

People don't need better AI. People are made to think they need better AI. Other than that yea

Losing privacy for convenience has been happening. We use GPS on our smart phones for better directions. We install listening devices to add things to shopping carts and to play music by voice. We install cloud security cameras at home. We accept free WiFi in stores which gives them our cell phone info and our location. We use digital cash instead of physical cash. We buy things online rather than going to the store. Every device, like a toaster, has a MAC address.

At least until Big Tech realizes that hallucinations in generative AI aren't fixable and the whole stock market crashes.

Did they mean "and be doing so insinuate" I wonder? Initiate makes some sense too, just odd phrasing.

Anyway! I'm getting sidetracked lol! Haven't even watched the video yet. Thanks for sharing the quote

There is a fork on F-Droid that isn't reliant on Google push (it uses Unified Push) called Molly. I donate to both Molly and Signal.

Signal is using Google Push messaging, but it could be used with websocket. And officially it's not on fdroid because they don't want forks of their app

I'm guessing its not fully open source, but I don't actually know.

They are vehemently against self hosting as well.

I had a classmate that was really exstatic about AI, like he basically believed its the second coming of christ. And then another one who was like "ohh look i can use this to make neat wallpapers". That was about all the resonance i got from my social circles.

I don't like the idea o LLMs everywhere, but I do use chatgpt quite a lot as a point of entrance to any topic that I might not know the existence of yet

I use LLMs just about every day. It's better than web-search for certain things, and is useful for some coding tasks. I think they're over-hyped by some people, but they are useful.

It isn't.

I runs it local on my machine

I'm in university. Every student uses chatGPT. Constantly.

In our last exam, the prof basically just said "cat's out of the bag, you can use chatGPT in the exam" (he gives open note exams).

Then maybe it shouldn't grow.

I simply took the title of the video. :shrug:

Like cracking passwords / encryption and injecting itself into anything and everything that connects to the internet?

It's also trained on data people reasonably expected would be private (private github repos, Adobe creative cloud, etc). Even if it was just public data, it can still be dangerous. I.e. It could be possible to give an LLM a prompt like, "give me a list of climate activists, their addresses, and their employers" if it was trained on this data or was good at "browsing" on its own. That's currently not possible due to the guardrails on most models, and I'm guessing they try to avoid training on personal data that's public, but a government agency could make an LLM without these guardrails. That data could be public, but would take a person quite a bit of work to track down compared to the ease and efficiency of just asking an LLM.

Wikipedia requires attribution, which AI scrapers never give.

It is "public" work, but under a license.