[ale] OT: youtube and AI

[George Allen]

All of her WTF? points ... it's bad enough with YouTube, but terrible in
other arenas.
My old pre 2012 Ford Escape died, and I had to get a new car (settled on a
2010 Prius).

Discovering all the "features" in "modern cars" like, non-mechanical
gear-shifts and electric e-brakes, so you can't put the car in neutral or
physically engage/disengage the parking brake without power and a "working
computer" ... all pitched in the name of "more tech is better for you, the
computer knows better than you" to the consumer and (likely) "it's cheaper
to build electric linkages and we can sell it for more, vs engineering
stuff like a independent mechanical parking brake."

Then there's:
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

So we're a "product" for the cars to mine, AND we should wholly trust the
cars with our lives as well as our data, as soon as they become
self-driving, as promised any day now next decade.

I love technology, and appreciate that things like hybrid / ev's and CVTs
require some level of drive-by-wire, but not at the cost of a mechanical
ebrake, or Subaru's "you've accepted license terms that let us record audio
and video of you simply by sitting in the car," or "tech is inherently
good, humans get distracted (because we've addicted them all to phones) so
you should let the cars do the driving"

Her "SkyNet is already perfect" conclusion seems like the same drum beating
across AI "well you can't turn it off, but... interact with it _even more_
and make tuning suggestions" and the Auto Industry marketing all the data
collection and computer-control > human-control designs as "safety
features" for our own good.

It seems like Reddit is eating its own tail with AI at this point also.

If the computers are training themselves to think, what "thoughts" are they
going to end up pushing towards the humans that stare at them en masse? The
next chapter of all this history is going to make "Cambridge Analytica"
look tame.


On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 12:06 PM Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I wasn't aware of that issue.
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