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To promote AI is privatisation by the back door, as it inevitably means a transfer of control to tech corporations. However, this handover to AI will generate more miscarriages of justice as it proceeds to override the voices of those whose lives it affects.
AI Will Create a Thousand Post Office Scandals
Dan McQuillan
But using generative AI to automate information retrieval doesn’t merely lead to inaccurate information production; it also further curtails human agency in the process and prevents the sorts of social negotiations that determine how information is organized. Instead models organize information according to “discovered” norms within data sets that correspond to no particular rule or intention but instead enforce a higher-order rule that the entities that control the data sets necessarily control how information is ordered and accessed.
The Blackbird Must Be Flying
Substack
The average selling price of any used car in the market depends on the ratio of plums to lemons because every buyer's price is discounted by the risk of getting stuck with a lemon. So long as there's even a few lemons in the market, the average market price for a used car will always be slightly lower than what a genuine plum would go for in a world where where buyers could accurately distinguish them.
AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
Lars Doucet
Dec 26
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