We still await truly personal AI.
Google just launched Personal Intelligence. “Get highly personal help with everything from vacation ideas to project plans, and more. Gemini connects the dots across your Google apps—like Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube—and your chat history preferences to provide suggestions tailored to your world.”
That should be called personalized, because it’s not yours. It’s Google’s.
Oh, and this
Privacy | The dark age of surveillance capitalism, by Prasanto K. Roy in India Today. His point: Besides gathering huge amounts of personal data just by talking to you, Big AI can improve personal data extraction from other ordinary activities online, then interpret and use it to manipulate people, based on what’s known by opaque and unaccountable systems. For example, “Surveillance pricing is a thing once that dividend moves into the normal economy. Ride-hailing apps can charge you more if you use an iPhone, or have very low battery, and desperately need a ride.”
Just what you didn’t ask for
Show of hands: Does anyone here want ads on ChatGPT? (Don’t raise them if you work in the ad biz.)
Did you want them in Amazon searches? How about Google’s before that?
Expect ChatGPT to become just as enshittified.
And now, naturally, we have ICE Explores Big Data, Ad-Tech Tools to Power Investigations. Why? “ICE said it is primarily interested in how technology solutions can help identify individuals, entities, or locations.” Also, “Ad-tech location data is collected from apps, websites, and connected devices. It is then aggregated and sold by data brokers for uses beyond advertising, including analytics and research.”
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