But that’s the idea, right? Lucas Ropek in Gizmodo: Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users: The advertising industry is immensely powerful and disturbingly opaque. Read it. Then look at a PageXray of that same story to see how much tracking Gizmodo does, and how deeply embedded it is in that same fecosystem:
Care to report on that, Lucas? If you do, you won’t be the first. That was Farhad Monjoo, here, six years ago in The New York Times. You’ll be the second.
What if it helps everyone do a better job? Steven Wright: “I take my dog for walks outside my apartment… on the ledge. Some people are afraid of heights. I’m afraid of widths.”Somehow that joke (as best I recall it) comes to mind when I consider OpenAI’s Deep Research. Everybody I know who uses it gushes about all the amazing things it can do. I mean, a lot. A company CEO says it produces marvels with sales and usage data, with forecasting, with you-name-it. A law professor says it radically improves her job in almost every way. An innovation director says “It will change your life.” But there is push-back, naturally, on the usual AI threat: it will cost jobs. We’ll see.
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