Guy Holder
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guy-holder-4596854a_i-dont-think-i-have-heard-such-a-naked-exposition-share-7454225899031269376-oqBA
I don’t think I have heard such a naked exposition of the
centrality of surveillance capitalism to the development of OpenAI
than this 54 second clip from Sam Altman (link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efSpDL0hZzM):
“These models are still quite
dumb, relative to what they will be, but, more than that, they
have quite limited awareness of your life, you are still having
to, like, massage them and cajole them, to try and get the thing
that you want.
We are no longer that far away
from a model that just knows all of your contacts, it knows
about you, it knows about your life, it knows what your doing,
it knows what you care about, it knows about the people in your
life, it has access to your computer and your browser (if you
want, of course) and it has access, maybe increasingly over
time, to what is going on in the real world around you.
That is going to be a complete
change to what it feels like to use a computer, and what it
feels like to use AI, and I am tremendously excited about that.
But I don’t think even we have a good intuition yet for what
that’s really going to feel like”
.........
To successfully develop their product, and to have it perform to
its optimum potential, everything must be known. Everything.
Virtually and ‘in real life’. Everything. It is there, above, in
black and white. It is on the tape.
As Shoshana Zuboff wrote in her seminal book 'Surveillance
Capitalism, there is no end to the drive for data, other than
totality.
Where does this leave education, with regards to being protected
from this vision of AI extractivism? Linked, and even more
importantly, where does it leave the rights of children?
Sitting ducks, I would say.
As Karen Hao writes, the push for data
disproportionately falls on “already vulnerable populations,
including children”.
We have to resist this.