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"AI hype" is the true AI product
An ex-big tech researcher worked deep in the "information retrieval" space. Now he wants to educate the public on the true capabilities and limitations of AI.
Model alignment approaches centralize that power in the hands of the platform owners and the same technology that can remove harmful content can also be employed to espouse bigotry and selectively present information in ways to manipulate users’ commercial and political preferences over time. Interestingly, even in academic circles, the hype has been so crazy and so much of research funding and future job prospects have been tied to big tech, that it’s difficult to raise these issues and have nuanced conversations about our collective responsibilities to society. In contrast, big tech framing of responsible AI focuses on fairness and representational harms but rarely talk about how some of these technologies concentrate power in the hands of the platform owners.
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