Actually, it’s everyone that’s going to abuse it. Big tech wants to be the exclusive “AI provider” for everyday people’s AI needs and desires but the reality is that the tech isn’t that easy to keep secret/proprietary because most of the innovations pushing AI forward come from individuals fooling around with the technology and academia. Not from big tech R&D (which lately seems to all be spent trying to improve business processes).
Big tech is spending billions on hardware and entire data centers just to do AI stuff with the expectation that it’ll give them a competitive advantage but the truth is that it’ll be the small companies and individuals that end up taking advantage of AI in ways that actually improve things for everyday people and/or make real money.
My guess is that they’re betting on acquisitions of companies using their AI processing power 🤷. Either that or it’s just wishful thinking.
AI scams are already rampant where they pretend to be a loved one asking for help (read: “I’m in a bad situation right now can you send me as much money as you can?”) And unsurprisingly it’s unreasonably effective especially for older people.
Just a reminder that the tech companies absolutely do not see the above as an issue BTW, in fact all they seem to do is tacitly endorse it by advertising that you can use their service to clone people and “bring them to life” virtually and stuff. Because they’re still making money when you use the AI (not to mention they collect and retain the training data you give them, with or without the subject’s consent) and it’s not like it’s that easy for investigators to tell which AI was responsible for a particular scam campaign so there’s really no risk to their reputation at all.
Actually, it’s everyone that’s going to abuse it. Big tech wants to be the exclusive “AI provider” for everyday people’s AI needs and desires but the reality is that the tech isn’t that easy to keep secret/proprietary because most of the innovations pushing AI forward come from individuals fooling around with the technology and academia. Not from big tech R&D (which lately seems to all be spent trying to improve business processes).
Big tech is spending billions on hardware and entire data centers just to do AI stuff with the expectation that it’ll give them a competitive advantage but the truth is that it’ll be the small companies and individuals that end up taking advantage of AI in ways that actually improve things for everyday people and/or make real money.
My guess is that they’re betting on acquisitions of companies using their AI processing power 🤷. Either that or it’s just wishful thinking.
AI scams are already rampant where they pretend to be a loved one asking for help (read: “I’m in a bad situation right now can you send me as much money as you can?”) And unsurprisingly it’s unreasonably effective especially for older people.
Just a reminder that the tech companies absolutely do not see the above as an issue BTW, in fact all they seem to do is tacitly endorse it by advertising that you can use their service to clone people and “bring them to life” virtually and stuff. Because they’re still making money when you use the AI (not to mention they collect and retain the training data you give them, with or without the subject’s consent) and it’s not like it’s that easy for investigators to tell which AI was responsible for a particular scam campaign so there’s really no risk to their reputation at all.