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If an AI can do this, an AI can also watch my screen and blank out all ads and edit out the sound. The controversy and panic that will happen when such an AI is

If an AI can do this, an AI can also watch my screen and blank out all ads and edit out the sound. The controversy and panic that will happen when such an AI is eventually revealed will be interesting.

AtlasBarfed 3y ago
Buy that is the REAL issue. AI is a slave in service to corporations, and those corps have a culture of three decades of depraved sociopathy, with comical levels of contempt for customers, people, humanity, and civilization. AI is not your friend. Whatever service it provides is a Trojan horse or, at a minimum, surveillance.
pavel_lishin 3y ago
I read something about this on Garbageday today: > Case in point: the Arc Browser. > For years, The Browser Company has been promising to save the internet. Its Arc Browser is a smart refresh of what a modern gateway to the web should look and feel like and it generated a lot of goodwill with early users. And then, earlier this month, they released their AI-powered search app, which “browses the internet for you.” > The Browser Company’s new app lets you ask semantic questions to a chatbot, which then summarizes live internet results in a simulation of a conversation. Which is great, in theory, as long as you don’t have any concerns about whether what it’s saying is accurate, don’t care where that information is coming from or who wrote it, and don’t think through the long-term feasibility of a product like this even a little bit. > But the base logic of something like Arc’s AI search doesn’t even really make sense. As Engadget recently asked in their excellent teardown of Arc’s AI search pivot, “Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?” But let’s take a step even further here. Why even bother making new websites if no one’s going to see them?
g-b-r 3y ago
I mean, adblockers have existed for a while...
CatWChainsaw 3y ago
AI can also watch your screen on Big Tech's behalf and market to you based on your porn watching habits. Or immediately alert interested parties of your torrent setup. Or allow a hacker access to your tax returns when they inevitably jailbreak said AI and it spews out the extremely sensitive personal information of billions of unaware people.

AtlasBarfed 3y ago

Buy that is the REAL issue. AI is a slave in service to corporations, and those corps have a culture of three decades of depraved sociopathy, with comical levels of contempt for customers, people, humanity, and civilization. AI is not your friend. Whatever service it provides is a Trojan horse or, at a minimum, surveillance.

pavel_lishin 3y ago

I read something about this on Garbageday today: > Case in point: the Arc Browser. > For years, The Browser Company has been promising to save the internet. Its Arc Browser is a smart refresh of what a modern gateway to the web should look and feel like and it generated a lot of goodwill with early users. And then, earlier this month, they released their AI-powered search app, which “browses the internet for you.” > The Browser Company’s new app lets you ask semantic questions to a chatbot, which then summarizes live internet results in a simulation of a conversation. Which is great, in theory, as long as you don’t have any concerns about whether what it’s saying is accurate, don’t care where that information is coming from or who wrote it, and don’t think through the long-term feasibility of a product like this even a little bit. > But the base logic of something like Arc’s AI search doesn’t even really make sense. As Engadget recently asked in their excellent teardown of Arc’s AI search pivot, “Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?” But let’s take a step even further here. Why even bother making new websites if no one’s going to see them?

g-b-r 3y ago

I mean, adblockers have existed for a while...

CatWChainsaw 3y ago

AI can also watch your screen on Big Tech's behalf and market to you based on your porn watching habits. Or immediately alert interested parties of your torrent setup. Or allow a hacker access to your tax returns when they inevitably jailbreak said AI and it spews out the extremely sensitive personal information of billions of unaware people.