Tonight, questions about who is watching and who is in charge, as a tool promoted as a way to fight crime, fuel a national conversation about privacy, surveilla
I genuinely don’t know. We have such a permissive, business-first-and-nothing-else-matters approach right now that we’re literally forcing the public to alpha and beta test products that can (and already have) killed people. Nobody gave consent to participate in in testing Tesla’s shitty autopilot. Nobody consented to getting dangerous advice on mixing bleach and ammonia to make a cheap and effective household cleaner from an LLM, or seeing how much interaction with one it takes to drive people to suicide. Nobody consented to having cloud-seeding substances released into the air above their homes, but we’re allowing that, too.
Push the product out to the masses, what better testing pool can we ask for? It’s so invasive and should be illegal, but there’s more money to be made in allowing it to happen. After all, how else is America supposed to innovate quickly?
I genuinely don’t know. We have such a permissive, business-first-and-nothing-else-matters approach right now that we’re literally forcing the public to alpha and beta test products that can (and already have) killed people. Nobody gave consent to participate in in testing Tesla’s shitty autopilot. Nobody consented to getting dangerous advice on mixing bleach and ammonia to make a cheap and effective household cleaner from an LLM, or seeing how much interaction with one it takes to drive people to suicide. Nobody consented to having cloud-seeding substances released into the air above their homes, but we’re allowing that, too.
Push the product out to the masses, what better testing pool can we ask for? It’s so invasive and should be illegal, but there’s more money to be made in allowing it to happen. After all, how else is America supposed to innovate quickly?