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Ben Tarnoff, in his book Internet for the People, argues that this is an achievable goal but it must begin with a process of “deprivatization”60—putting the tools that have become our public square into the public’s hands, under democratic control. “To build a better internet, we need to change how it is owned and organized,” Tarnoff writes, adding, “What is at stake is nothing less than the possibility of democracy—a possibility that an internet organized by the profit motive precludes.”
AI models could be seen as being markets of sorts themselves, and all human acts of communication as obscure attempts to revalue the “prices” or “parameters” of particular ideas — they are acts of economic exchange, regardless of the auspices under which people might think they are speaking. All communication is aimed at persuading the models to change, regardless of who we think we are talking to, because only the models have the scale, scope, and perspective to dictate which meaning are binding, what things “really” look like, and so on.
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This is how the Internet works. Companies spy on us as we use their products and services. Data brokers buy that surveillance data from the smaller companies, and assemble detailed dossiers on us. Then they sell that information back to those and other companies, who combine it with data they collect in order to manipulate our behavior to serve their interests. At the expense of our own.
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