Online Privacy Opinions and Thoughts

social media and various other apps have been hijacking people's brains for a while now 

I'd like governments to put more legislation into what is being allowed to be shared and promoted (hehe as long as politically their social democratic and green as that's my personal bias...)

As for the other side of that in respect of monitoring and policing society... once upon a time local police knew who was dangerous in the neighbourhood generally and could physically keep an eye on them,  These days the electronic neighbourhood is world-wide and I think there is a need for protection...

The genie is out of the bottle...

I don't have a problem with age verification there's stuff that young minds should not be exposed too, nor should those who innocently stumble across something.

Don't many social media sites go through your address book on your phone or pooter to make connections between you and others?

Isn't that the same in the real world with teenagers, you can't be watching them 24/7?

Sounds like discrimination is being baked in at the start, I supose it will only change with the next worldwide miscarriage of justice and become something like the Me Too movement?

This article argues that racial bias occurs because publicly available datasets are rarely diverse. I would have thought this is something that could be addressed if there was a real will to make things better. There must be enough publicly available datasets in the world for engineers to evaluate racial diversity and prioritise image quality and racial balance. 

jolt.law.harvard.edu/.../why-racial-bias-is-prevalent-in-facial-recognition-technology

Facial recognition is racially biased too, it seems to only recognise white and south east Asian faces, the darker your skin tone the less likely it is to recognise you.

Iain said:

There were amusing cases where Truth Social added AI to its platform and when asked qustions like "did Trump lose in 2020" it gave the factualy correct answer until the owners stepped in to make it answer in line with the "party line" on this and a range of other subjects

So it gives the answer the person is looking for. 

Iain said:

I only use it to find pointers to other references

I use it for the same sort of thing too, and I often check the references it gives so as to be certain of its sources.

ArchaeC said:

I read only yesterday that AI is continuing to show bias

There were amusing cases where Truth Social added AI to its platform and when asked qustions like "did Trump lose in 2020" it gave the factualy correct answer until the owners stepped in to make it answer in line with the "party line" on this and a range of other subjects.

I'm afraid AI is fundamentally flawed and I only use it to find pointers to other references rather than trusting it with answering a question reliable, whatever the platform.

ArchaeC said:

I read only yesterday that AI is continuing to show bias

There were amusing cases where Truth Social added AI to its platform and when asked qustions like "did Trump lose in 2020" it gave the factualy correct answer until the owners stepped in to make it answer in line with the "party line" on this and a range of other subjects.

I'm afraid AI is fundamentally flawed and I only use it to find pointers to other references rather than trusting it with answering a question reliable, whatever the platform.

Iain said:

There were amusing cases where Truth Social added AI to its platform and when asked qustions like "did Trump lose in 2020" it gave the factualy correct answer until the owners stepped in to make it answer in line with the "party line" on this and a range of other subjects

So it gives the answer the person is looking for. 

Iain said:

I only use it to find pointers to other references

I use it for the same sort of thing too, and I often check the references it gives so as to be certain of its sources.