Status Updates From The Secret Life of Data: Na...

“Despite building futuristic technology, technologists don’t often think much about the future.”

“‘If we built communities where we treated each other, where we spoke to each other, where you knew me, and I knew you, why would I need to surveil you?’”

“The common thread is the idea that software always reflects the world around it in a way that is neither neutral nor objective, and thus amplifies the distortions, errors, and biases of the people who create and use it.”

“[GANs and ML models] can imitate, but they can’t innovate (at least, not intentionally.)”

These examples of using AI or machine learning to learn more about art and history is interesting

“The entire Internet essentially runs on targeted advertising, which itself is entirely reliant on unaccountable and frequently opaque systems, metadata collection and analysis.”

maybe it’s time for me to delete good reads….

in the surveillance state, we’re all cam girls