The problem is not so much that we are increasingly relying on algorithms to be our interface with an increasingly information-intensive world. With the rise of the Internet and AI, his trend is inevitable. The issue is control.
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As a side note, this is why products like Google search, Gmail, iOS, Android are beneficial while the Facebook newsfeed is destructive. The former are active, they empower users to do more, to know more. The latter manipulates your worldview and seeks to maximally waste your time
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As an industry, we need to develop product categories and markets where the incentives are aligned with placing the user in charge of the AI, instead of using AI to exploit the user's mind for profit or political gain. We need to strive towards products that are the anti-Facebook
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YouTube (Google) serves conspiracy theory videos when I tell it not to do that through feedback.
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@fchollet. Your perspective is very lucid. This is an industry problem: what can we do to drive this by demanding both more of our competitors and critically, ourselves and our peers?
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I totally agree with you
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An international ethical committee, same as the IBC for bioethics seems necessary, more than goodwill alone
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I agree, but these products you describe would probably put Google out of business.
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This would be good, and clearly motivating for an individual involved in this work, but is there actually any general way to align the profit motive of businesses with the idea of users being in charge of their data and the algorithms?
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Excuse my ignorance, but I believe it's possible. I mean, if Facebook's idea is to catch and keep people's attention for as long as possible... Why make them consume crappy content, when they could consume whatever content they wanted and FB would still profit, right?
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You work in this stuff, you have deep understanding. A lay user doesn't, so how can they, without knowledge, trust settings etc? /2
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1/2 Need open social platforms giving users AI powered Vendor Relationship Management tools to protect them from Corporate AI powered marketing & research tools. There will never be a perfect balance, but much like the virus vs antivirus world, users will have a fighting chance
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2/2 I can't see any alternatives other than: (a) Heavy legislation (This is almost always too late and badly crafted.) (b) Do nothing and hope Corps will see the light and stop taking advantage of consumers. This is a futile dead end. Any ideas?
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