Larry Ellison's comments on AI surveillance are hard to parse as the creations of a mind attached to reality.
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Larry Ellison's comments on AI surveillance are hard to parse as the creations of a mind attached to reality.
You can read this as a study of a pathological psyche, but be warned that, once you realize this is the CEO of Oracle, your mood will sour.
https://www.404media.co/larry-ellisons-ai-powered-surveillance-dystopia-is-already-here/
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@chrisg Is he really any worse than the rest of them?
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@datarama The reason I am pointing this out is not because it's somehow different than the rest of the inane takes these billionaires have, although it is distilled inanity.
It is that, as I mentioned yesterday, these quotes are worth looking at through the lens of what may be the next tech grift.
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@chrisg Both he, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel and Eric Schmidt have been saying the quiet part out loud for a while now - but I don't think this is going to be the *next* tech grift. It's the *current* tech grift; it's been going strong for a long time already.
"Orwellian surveillance" has felt quaint to me since at least 2015 (when I wrote a silly little short story on that theme). The data eg. Meta has on a Western citizen in 2024 dwarfs what Cold War totalitarian secret police had on theirs.