Welcome to Cognitive Capitalism
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- #Data Privacy
- #AI Surveillance
- #Cognitive Capitalism
- Facebook's initial promise of connecting people evolved into a massive surveillance and data harvesting operation.
- OpenAI's ChatGPT Pulse is positioned as a 24/7 digital assistant but functions as a cognitive surveillance tool.
- The strategy involves incremental feature creep, starting with useful functions and expanding into deep data collection.
- Sam Altman's previous venture, Worldcoin, involved biometric data collection, and now OpenAI is targeting cognitive data.
- OpenAI is facing significant financial losses, with projections showing unsustainable burn rates.
- The company plans to monetize through targeted advertising, integrating ads into ChatGPT's responses.
- ChatGPT Pulse collects extensive personal data, including work patterns, communication styles, and decision-making processes.
- The integration of various apps and services creates a comprehensive digital profile of users.
- Local AI models offer a privacy-focused alternative but lack the convenience and polish of centralized solutions.
- The article draws parallels between Facebook's data exploitation and OpenAI's current trajectory, warning of similar outcomes.