AI is Getting Better, but Privacy is Getting Worse

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Table of Contents

• How Good is AI Getting?

• Privacy and License Plate Readers

• Privacy and AI Enabled Glasses

• WordPress Has a Problem

• Teacher’s Quitting over ChatGPT

How Good is AI Getting?

Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI and perineal PR person for all things AI has come out and talked about how good he feels AI is getting.

Overall, he was hyping how good he feels AI is getting better and will continue and help solve harder problems that we can’t solve without AI.

Of course, he’s going to be positive about AI, he’s the unofficial AI leader at this point. The question is how much is hype vs real solutions

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Privacy and License Plate Readers

When license plate recognition (reader) system came out, some people were concerned about cops being able to track them, even if they weren’t following them, as it gave the police insight into daily patterns they may not want.

Turns out the truth is actually much worse.

These systems can track not only automobiles, but they can read yard signs, t-shirts, and more. Then it can be used to build databases of information with that data to use, or even sell, with no one’s consent.

And mostly, it seems to be completely legal. Out in public, one cannot assume privacy - at least that is what the law says.

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Privacy and AI Enabled Glasses

Ever run into someone out in public, and you can’t remember their name? AI glasses have long been touted as a solution to that, and other similar problems. But what if you don’t know the person?

Turns out, with the help of a couple of Harvard students, that isn’t an issue either. By just looking at someone, these AI glasses can look up a person in real time, and start providing you with information about them… without their consent.

So how public do you want your public data to be? Would this be helpful in dating? Looking for a job? For your date or potential future employer?

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WordPress Has a Problem

WordPress is one of the largest and most successful open source projects out there, powering approximately 40% of all websites on the Internet. (I host several WordPress driven sites include my access2learn.com.)

And while the last 20 years of the product haven’t always been flawless, or with no controversy, nothing has happened like what happened this past week.

The challenge is how do you have an open source product, which gets free updates from users and developers, and relies upon for-profit companies? This is the ongoing challenge, and recently the issue has been, who is WordPress.

Explaining the difference between Wordpress.org and Wordpress.com has always been a challenge, but they were owned by the same entity. Enter WP-Engine, and things get murkier.

According to Automatic (WordPress’s overseer?) WP-Engine, a hosting company, has been using the WP name (a common abbreviation of WordPress), and they need to license it. WP-Engine doesn’t think so, and thus a battle broke out, both on X.com as well as between lawyers.

How will this work out? Nobody knows, to be honest.

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Teacher’s Quitting over ChatGPT

More and more, I am hearing this. Teachers quit because of…

As a teacher myself, I find this interest. Why are they quitting? Well, every article has a different reason, but I’ve seen AI cropping up more and more.

Some say students rely on it too much, and are just cheating. Others say AI makes them outdated. Others are using in ways that may or may not be cheating, but are cheating them out of the learning process, and students don’t understand the importance of the process.

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