“Big Tech’s Comical Scuffle Over Who Trains the AI the Best”
“Inside Big Tech’s tussle over AI training data”
“Big tech companies like Google and Facebook have always been known to be data-hungry, feeding on information at a massive scale to train their AI models. But never has there been such an explicit show of their insatiable appetite for data as recently reported.”
Well, folks, here’s a news flash: Big tech companies are hungry! Not for scrumptious grub, but for something that even the richest billionaire can’t eat: data. It’s like watching a futuristic movie where megacorporations, such as Google and Facebook, are predictable bad guys feasting on data as if it were a gourmet meal. Sounds absurd? Not much! Welcome to the digital age, where data is the new oil, and big tech companies are the new Barons.
These big boys are in a constant, cutthroat race to feed their AI models with volumes of data that most could hardly fathom. Call it an unstoppable hunger, an insatiable craving, or an unquenchable thirst; whatever the analogy, the fact is that these tech titans can’t get enough of it.
Sure, AI models would tickle fancy, but without a doubt humans are operating these bots. Are we building our own overlords? If this was a sci-fi film, then yes, but this is real life, where the line between utopia and dystopia is about as thin as your privacy in the world wide web. All of this data churning is happening under the supposedly well-intentioned supervision of the ai industry’s current platitude: “Artificial General Intelligence.”
While the likes of Facebook and Google are in a non-stop data binge, new legislation is trying to cut entanglement with privacy laws, waving the green flag to gather more data under the guise of being in the public good. You can call it repurposing or label it in a more PR-friendly way as “AI public policy”, but the end user’s privacy remains as a low-priority concern. In layman’s terms, it’s like sitting ducks, patiently enduring a lingering storm with the vague promise of a rainbow at the end.
So, what now? While we eagerly wait, Big Tech does what it does best: indulge greedily in the data feast, seemingly forgetting the profound phrase, “with great power comes great responsibility.” And while we console ourselves with self-driving cars, smart homes, and convenience at our fingertips, it might be worth pausing for a moment to ponder: Who’s really driving the car—us, or the data-hungry behemoths we’ve created?