> Does anyone else have regrets about being in the tech industry when things like this, privacy issues, leaks, etc seem to be a big thing on a nearly daily or a

> Does anyone else have regrets about being in the tech industry when things like this, privacy issues, leaks, etc seem to be a big thing on a nearly daily or at least weekly basis now? I personally don't but I think the issue here is that things like ClearView AI and ID.me and the related controversies were inevitable. Just as we're seeing with the development of DeepFakes. An astute observer can probably pretty accurately pick out the differences but will that be true in five to ten years? Audio faking is already fairly good. Once any technology is close, there will be people telling you it's solved. Look at self-driving cars. All these "we've solved it, autopilot is the greatest thing since sliced bread" takes are pushed as marketing, meanwhile the capabilities are substantially lower than human drivers. The bar for these kinds of things should be, at minimum better than a human. The issue isn't with the tech itself but the actors involved. It's a tool, and like any others it can be abused. What makes it dangerous is that the limitations of these tools don't appear to be investigated at all, which is a failure of something or someone, I'm just not sure what or who (probably government). Coupling a "not quite ready" tech with some snazzy marketing and shady practices seems to have been par for the course for a lot of technologies that emerged from the post-industrial revolution era, and in some cases even before then. Just chemical examples: Leaded gasoline, CFCs, DDT, Thalidomide, etc. You could look to something like cryptomining and its environmental and social impact as another more modern tech example.