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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI threatens privacy 🚀
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/05/artificial-intelligence-meredith-whittaker-signal-telegram
The big picture: Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal and co-founder of the AI Now Institute, has been an outspoken critic of the "surveillance business model" favored by big tech platforms.
Because it costs so much money to create and run AI models, tech companies will inevitably try to pay for them by selling our personal information, Whittaker told Axios' Ina Fried at the event in New York. "It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to train these models," Whittaker said. "So there is deep pressure from companies — that are basically promising God and delivering email prompts — to make some return on investment in this technology." Between the lines: Signal — which provides a fully encrypted messaging service — is a tech company, too, but a non-profit.
"We looked at the cold, hard business model of tech," Whittaker said, "and realized that if we were a for-profit it is very likely that we would be pushed to erode privacy guarantees in an industry where collecting, selling, and making use of personal data is the primary economic driver."
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