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Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for “enriching conversations” (www.theverge.com)

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Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for “enriching conversations”::Volkswagen is putting ChatGPT into its cars starting in the second quarter of 2024. The feature is being considered for the US, but plans have yet to be finalized.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Remarkably stupid take. It's produced by big-data companies because you need a lot of data to feed it but that doesn't make it "surveillance technology". Stable Diffusion wasn't trained on the kind of data she's talking about, and it can't be used to surveil you either. ChatGPT no more permits surveillance of its users than does chatting with a real person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You can’t see the potential this has for parsing massive sets of data across multiple types of media and drawing conclusions? The person in the link isn’t talking about LLMs and image generators. It’s pretty clear you didn’t read it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

AI absolutely has the potential to be used for surveillance; its use in facial recognition most obviously. But the person quoted in the article didn't say "AI has the potential to be used for surveillance" - she said "AI is fundamentally a surveillance technology". So if she's not talking about LLMs and image generators, why is she saying that it's a fundamental part of the technology? It's not very fundamental if these two year-defining AI technologies aren't included in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Fundamental is part of the headline and not a quote. She never said that. Stupid headline, sure. Stupid take? Nah. Surveillance is one of the most practical applications of machine learning; they can finally easily sift through all that data they’ve collected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Fair enough, I genuinely misread and thought that was within the quotation marks. But her message is still wrong because she is still talking about AI in general, but her argument applies only to a) AI whose data is derived from data scrapers like Facebook or b) AI put to surveillance tasks. That does not apply to Stable Diffusion, which is why I mentioned it, but it is caught by her assertion, "AI is a surveillance technology."