Business models based on conflicts of interest, obfuscation of important aspects, manipulation, surreptitious use of information, etc. will always create damage

Business models based on conflicts of interest, obfuscation of important aspects, manipulation, surreptitious use of information, etc. will always create damage. Conflicts of interest generate damage. That is what AI products and services need to avoid. Facebook is a scrapbooking company that requires very few resources to host tiny posts, … … wrapped in a megacorp that harnesses vast computing resources in order to manipulate its users into watching ads for hours, making maximal unnecessary purchases, instead of occasionally perusing their friends and families posts. All the dysfunction, the constant emotional hooks, the rage addictions being fed, the casino aspects of trashy doom scroll content, etc. grow like weeds into an ever more complex jungle, because … conflicts of interest. It is easy to forget that only 1% of the company’s activity, or maybe 1% of that, is actually needed to host our tiny posts. An extremely basic task.