Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' | TechCrunch
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Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' | TechCrunch
So, to sum up, we now have the world’s most used chatbot, governed by training data that nobody knows about, obeying an algorithm that is only hinted at, glorified by the media, and yet with ethical guardrails that only sorta kinda work and that are driven more by text similarity than any true moral calculus. And, bonus, there is little if any gove
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