I very much understand wanting to have a say against our data being freely harvested for AI training. But this article’s call for a general opt-out of interacting with AI seems a bit regressive. Many aspects of this and other discussions about the “AI revolution” remind me about the Mitchell and Web skit on the start of the bronze age: https://youtu.be/nyu4u3VZYaQ
You can opt-out by deleting your accounts on corporate social networks.
I disagree with the base premise that being opt out needs to be a right. That implies that having data be harvested for companies to make profits should be the default.
We should have the right to not have our data harvested by default. Requiring companies to have an opt in process with no coercion or other methods of making people feel obligated to opt in is our right.
We should have the right to not have our data harvested by default.
How would that benefit the average person?
By giving us the choice of whether someone else should profit by our data.
Same as I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and copying off my test answers.
By giving us the choice of whether someone else should profit by our data.
What benefit do you expect from that?
Same as I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and copying off my test answers.
Why not?
I prefer that the benefits of those things accrue to me, or to others, or to no one, in accordance with my choice.
In this way, I would decide who gains the economic or social benefits of these activities of mine; and I also, in the case of personal data, would decide who gets to make my business, their business.
Thanks for the answer.
Send me your name, birthdate, web browsing history, online spending history, real time location, and a list of people you know and I will explain it to you.
I think it may he more productive to get people to use alternative ai products that are foss and/or respect privacy.
You got downvoted because Lemmy users like knee jerk reactions and think that you can unmake a technology or idea. You can’t, Ai is here and it’s forever now. Best we can do is find ways to live with it and like you said, reward those who use it ethically. The Lemmy idea that Ai should be banned and not used is so unrealistic
AI is everywhere now, but having the choice to opt out matters. Sometimes, using tools lik Instant Ink isn’t about AI it’s just about saving time and making printing easier.
If there was an ai to detect ai would you use it?
Yes. That is actually an ideal function of ethical AI. I’m not against AI in regards to things that is is actually beneficial towards and where it can be used as a tool for understanding, I just don’t like it being used as a thief’s tool pretending to be a paintbrush or a typewriter. There are good and ethical uses for AI, art is not one of them.
