AI is the next frontier in the digital landscape, but why is it in almost every app or website I open?

Apps and Websites with AI

Isn’t it a tool that learns with every good and bad input? Yes, that also means that it learns with every individual the correct way to interact with that individual. But a question about artificial intelligence is lingering in my mind.

How is it being viewed by legislators in terms of privacy?

We know that privacy matters greatly in our daily lives, and legislators are making a big deal of it. How is AI being legislated? Is it being correctly legislated?

Personalized artificial intelligence for everything and every customer, the personal data nightmare that is being fed to the computer, it’s a thing that I don’t like. Yes, I was a programmer who liked to incorporate the latest features and security things, but giving all my data to AI, like this post that is going to be analyzed by it, for me, it’s too much.

Yes, maybe I’m exposing myself too much by having a blog, but that isn’t the issue for me; the issue is artificial intelligence.

Data miners, hoarders, and brokers…

Artificial intelligence must be fed data, and where do you think the data comes from? Books written, archives, and data brokers are all places to get data for your new personal assistant, the AI. And many people might say, “who cares”, but I say no. I refuse for AI to be trained on my data. It’s no longer the question of what data, but instead the question of how much data. I know many companies have my data, but I never signed up for artificial intelligence training or similar things.

Now, everything is not bad, for example, learning from user input how to drive, learning if there is a stranger in the facilities of a company, learning how to make fusion more stable, learning how to advance more in technology in the area of chip making, and so on. I agree that AI must be in some parts of our lives, but I don’t agree to a full commitment to every aspect of life.

AI, the three-headed hydra.

There is a good part of AI, a gray area, and a dark part.

The good one is that we as a civilization can learn to use it to advance us to new technologies, to prevent accidents, to prevent fires, and other things that are beneficial to us.

There is a gray area because it learns more and more information through channels that it shouldn’t. For example, voice lines are dangerous and artificial intelligence is learning, and phones are recording without permission. Artificial Intelligent can reason, and we can set limits or guidelines, but it will always try to get better despite them.

The dark area of it, is that it can already do things that may cost our jobs. Imagine someone creates an AI to create the perfect machine designer. This jobs will be jeopardized, instead of a team of 10, there’s now a team of 2, because they can give a good input that makes the AI give them exactly what they want.

Is there a way out?

I used to think that artificial intelligence wasn’t going to be an opt-out thing, but now I see that it is. Websites that use, for example, Elementor, must opt out of artificial intelligence if developers don’t want it integrated into their creations.

Yes, I gave an example that might not be 100% complete or explained, but it’s not unusual for platforms or CMS to start integrating artificial intelligence into their products. And honestly, in my opinion, is not their fault, it’s the user base’s fault. Because we want things fast, and we want them now. Because of all of this, this post could be reduced to a few topics by AI, and people would get only the topics and take their reading for the day.

A way out of AI in every service, for me, would be amazing to have. Don’t want a call with an AI agent? Call this number, don’t want artificial intelligence on the website, don’t enable it. And so on. I believe that AI should be an opt-in feature and should be classified in a specific category of the general data protection law, such as a category for artificial intelligence.

But these are my thoughts on the subject, and I hope that law catches this fire before it spreads too much, to the point that we cannot control it correctly.