“With artificial intelligence, we’re basically relaundering a lot of this shit through broken models that are giving Google more and more authority to claim intelligence when what they’re actually doing is issuing derivatives of the shitty data they have.”
Meredith Whittaker runs Signal. She is a rare model of how to hang onto ethics and values while succeeding in tech, and is wise about the “mass Big Tech surveillance business model.”
Brilliant interview:
https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/
James Gleick /
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2024-09-01 16:17:00
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