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I'm sympathetic to the "doing things in bulk is different to doing it as a once off". But in this case the harm isn't obvious to me. (Also, why 2020? I could u
by nl 3y ago
I'm sympathetic to the "doing things in bulk is different to doing it as a once off". But in this case the harm isn't obvious to me.
(Also, why 2020? I could understand if you'd said 2016 with Cambridge Analytica but 2020 isn't clear to me).
- SheinhardtWigCo 3y agoCambridge Analytica collected structured data: friend networks, likes, and interests. At that time, it wasn't plausible to obtain equally powerful insights from unstructured data. That only became a realistic scenario when GPT-3 came out, in 2020.
- nl 3y agoOh. I assure you plenty of companies were doing NLP based classification in this field much earlier than that. AdSense for example was doing it on pages, and of course Google search strings were a similar example.