When I consider AI, I find more cons than I do pros. What I see as AI dispenses into every corner of our lives are the final steps of a world take-over scheme near completion. AI will serve as a digital police force armed with the most detailed “personal dossiers” ever created. It also means the absolute end of privacy for the near term.

This new “paradigm” was made possible by way of theft. The very same corporations who policed copyrighted content like their life depended on it, have stolen the intellectual property of the world. They stole it order to train their AI. The rules that apply to you do not apply to them. Go ahead and upload copyrighted content to one of their platforms and notice how it is policed in real-time. Often with threats of punitive measures or de-platforming. Again, enforcing rules that do not apply to them. All that matters for power-hungry corporations is who can train the best AI the fastest. It should be crystal clear that privacy and intellectual property rules/laws do not apply to those engaged in the AI race, as long as we offer up our data carelessly.

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