"Over the years, expert after expert and organization after organization warned about the dangers of consolidating so much data in the hands of governments (and corporations)." - @zey.bsky.social
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The next step is manipulation of information access to further entrench our media silos and confirmation bias via AI. We won’t be able to know the truth anymore, or do anything about it.
This is a vital important topic, and individual must ponder the implications.
Yuval Noah Harari mentions in many of the pieces he’s written, that people only need to look to science fiction to understand how this concentration of data can play out. It is dystopian, but it’s not too late to stop it.
I'm glad this is out there, but I think it still understates the extent of the truly dystopian, social-scoring-and-control type things Musk & co. could actually do with this access if they combine gov data with web data and feed it into AI models (as seems to be their strong inclination).
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Yuval Noah Harari mentions in many of the pieces he’s written, that people only need to look to science fiction to understand how this concentration of data can play out. It is dystopian, but it’s not too late to stop it.