Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, now X, no longer thinks the platform he helped build is “the closest form of global consciousness.”
Week after leaving Bluesky's boarda rival X he helped find and finance, and publicly praising X as “freedom technology,” Dorsey shared a new post on X revisiting an opinion he shared nearly a decade ago — that Twitter was the closest form of global consciousness.
I once thought that Twitter was the closest form of global consciousness.
now it seems that corporate AI models are made like this. they have much more access to public and private opinions and questions. https://t.co/HGUbJZfzF9
— jack (@jack) May 22, 2024
Dorsey opined that X was “the closest thing” the world had “to a global consciousness” in 2015 and again in 2022.
“(Now) it looks like corporate (AI) models have become like that,” Dorsey has written Wednesday.
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Some X users went back, with one writing that AI does not have a “living” global consciousness like X. Dorsey he answered saying that AI is likely to have more information that is gathered in due course; it's just not as public as X.
Jack Dorsey. Credit: Cole Burston/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Corporate AI models may indeed have greater access to “public and private thoughts and questions,” as Dorsey put it.
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The big AI players, like Google and OpenAI, have made a deal recently with user forum sites like Reddit and major publishing companies like Financial Times to train AI models.
At the same time, the safety, accuracy and training data of AI have become a concern for users.
On the accuracy side, Google started placing AI summaries at the top of search results for it 250 million-plus monthly US audience.
Many users took to social media this week to point out that the new technology is getting important information wrong and getting it from the wrong sources.
AI security has also been called into question recently: Two OpenAI executives responsible for AI security left the tech company last week, with a writing that he left because “over the past few years, security culture and processes have taken a back seat to shiny products.”
OpenAI has since then wasted the team.
The company too stopped introducing an AI voice that sounded “strangely similar” to Scarlett Johansson's on Monday after Johansson released a public statement.
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