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So much of modern technology is a trojan horse these days. This is basically the enshittification of cloud services. Just a few years ago people would say you
by dm319 3y ago
So much of modern technology is a trojan horse these days. This is basically the enshittification of cloud services. Just a few years ago people would say you were being a little paranoid if you were worried about your data passing through company's servers unencrypted, but here we are now.
If companies do start training models on what people consider to be private documents, then the issues we already have with AI taking the jobs and purposes of humans is going to become significantly worse.
Scientists working on papers will essentially not be able to trust that their work won't get out before they have published it. A competing research team, asking prompts in the right way, could chance upon a reply that gives them a clue as to what the other team have found or are doing. The same goes for competing companies and engineering teams. Or authors writing the next book in a series. Other people using that trained data could produce a cheap rip-off of that next paper, patent, book using AI.
And that will completely demotivate humans to actually do stuff. Because what's the point? No one will pay you for it, and a poor quality second rate product is obtainable much cheaper.
At that point I think we'll discover what the real limitations of AI are, as we, as a society, have to get used to using it over humans. And I somehow doubt we will be better off.
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- nonrandomstring 3y ago> Scientists working on papers will essentially not be able to trust that their work won't get out before they have published it. For a long time already there's been a possibility for your work to "get out" (patented etc) before you've even finished working on it. How did Google (and other big-tech entities) get to be the most powerful bodies on Earth? When Google positioned themselves as "the search engine" they obtained more than a little digital privilege. The ability to observe everything someone is searching, over a long time period, is also the ability to anticipate their moves and intentions. That's put competitors and researchers at a huge disadvantage. Researchers and competitors signal their intentions, perhaps quite unknowingly, long before they even have a clear idea of what they're doing themselves. Of course AI only exacerbates this a million-fold. And surely what I'm saying is a decade behind the curve for anyone who is paying attention to the world. If you have a business in tech, and are therefore a direct competitor of at least one major big-tech entity, you should not be using their services. Instead think about on-prem and local compute solutions for your most sensitive work, and relay all your search out via Tor hidden services or other mixnets for maximum diffusion .