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Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter (now TwitterX), no longer believes the platform he helped build is “the closest representation of the world’s consciousness.”
In a new post about X, just weeks after stepping down from the board of directors of X rival Bluesky, which he helped found and fund, and publicly praising X as a “liberating technology,” Dorsey revised a view he expressed nearly a decade ago that Twitter is the closest thing to global consciousness.
I once thought Twitter was the closest thing we had to global consciousness.
Now it seems like that’s what’s happening with enterprise AI models, which have much more access to public thoughts and questions, private thoughts and questions. https://t.co/HGUbJZfzF9
— Jack (@jack) May 22, 2024
Dorsey expressed the opinion that X was the “closest thing” the world had to a “global consciousness.” 2015 and again 2022.
“[Now] Apparently the company [AI] That’s what the model was,” Dorsey said. I have written on wednesday.
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Some X users were opposed to it, write AI does not have a “living” global consciousness like X. Dorsey Responded They say that AI likely has a lot of information collected in a more timely manner, but it’s just not as publicly available as X.
Jack Dorsey. Photo by Cole Burston/Bloomberg via Getty Images
As Dorsey noted, a company’s AI models may indeed have more access to “public and private thoughts and questions.”
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Major AI companies such as Google and OpenAI have recently signed deals with user forum sites like Reddit and major publishers like The Financial Times to train their AI models.
At the same time, AI safety, accuracy, and training data are growing concerns for users.
On the accuracy side, Google has started displaying AI-generated summaries at the top of search results. 250 millionIt has a monthly audience of over 10,000 in the United States.
Several users took to social media this week to point out that the new technology is allowing people to get important information in the wrong hands and from the wrong sources.
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AI safety has also come into question recently: Two OpenAI leaders in charge of AI safety left the company last week, with one of them writing that he was leaving because “safety culture and process have taken a back seat to flashy products over the past few years.”
OpenAI has since Dissolved team.
The company also suspended the rollout of an AI voice that was “eerily similar” to Scarlett Johansson’s voice on Monday, following Johansson’s public statement.
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