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Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
If you don’t adjust its settings, your smartphone is tracking your journeys for Google or Apple. Google and Meta are collecting and monetising all the data they can, and while you can opt out of some of their surveillance, and that of most of the websites you visit, the default setting of the commercial internet is the capture and commodification of your life.
In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Rebecca Solnit
Executives at OpenAI, including Sam Altman, frequently talked about the need for interactive data and consumer engagement, repeating the refrain that “[OpenAI needed to get the ‘data flywheel’ going](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos/676050/)” - the same language used by social media companies focused on user addiction.
Key Takeaways: How ChatGPT's Design Led to a Teenager's Death
Center for Humane Technology
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