Hey: all the AI "chatbot in the cloud" service companies

[cwebber@social.coop]

Hey: all the AI "chatbot in the cloud" service companies?

Those are surveillance companies, and probably the most powerful ones we've ever had.

Keep that in mind if or when you talk to them.

[drq@mastodon.ml]

@cwebber In the same vein, the biggest tech companies aren't actually tech companies.

[cwebber@social.coop]

Keep that *especially* in mind right now, as the proliferation of surveillance companies has never threatened our social fabric and security and safety than it does today.

[cwebber@social.coop]

This concern isn't the same if you're running machine learning models locally. There are other concerns then, but surveillance isn't necessarily one of them (in most circumstances).