I just finished the 1st episode of the last #BlackMirror season. It hurt my feelings. And it feels very related to our current situation.
That's what would happen if we let corporations interested in maximum profit be the sole owners of the tech, and then control us.
And they are already doing so. We don't have a #FOSS #searchengine which works as good as #Google or #DuckDuckGo. Such these examples are very common.
And #AI/#ML techs are in hand of big techs, suited for them and not for the people. Of course, they publish the papers as #openscience. But what use is that when their models are built for expensive GPUs which a small company can't afford. Let alone common people like me.
Some people believe the way to fight these is regulation. But I highly doubt it. You can always find holes in the law. That's what lawyers commonly do.
But if we work on #opensource, on #opensourceai and on #OpenCulture, we can have a FOSS and #decentralized search engine which performs as good as the current mainstream search engines. Then Google will be automatically removed.
So next time someone asks me why I am a FOSS and #decentralization advocate, and why I so persistently pursue my goal of "AI for people"(and #wakegp as part of it), I'm gonna tell them watch few Black Mirror episodes so that they may understand which path chose the world has chosen for us, unless we choose a different path ourselves.
