How Google, Facebook and others use our most personal secrets against us | DW Documentary
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Is it possible to use a person's personal Google data to create their doppelganger? To reconstruct their personality, behavior patterns and hidden desires? A cross-media data experiment makes it possible to experience what kind of insights into our most intimate secrets Google, Facebook, and others already have. In the film, a former YouTube developer, a Google marketer, an expert for personalized advertising and several data protectionists explore the potentials - and the risks - that lie in algorithmic personality detection and behavior prediction. The film exposes how tech companies use the collected data of billions of people to turn our weaknesses, insecurities, illnesses and vulnerabilities to addiction into profit. #documentary #dwdocumentary #technology ______ DW Documentary gives you knowledge beyond the headlines. Watch top documentaries from German broadcasters and international production companies. Meet intriguing people, travel to distant lands, get a look behind the complexities of daily life and build a deeper understanding of current affairs and global events. Subscribe and explore the world around you with DW Documentary. Subscribe to: ⮞ DW Documentary (English): https://www.youtube.com/dwdocumentary ⮞ DW Documental (Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/dwdocumental ⮞ DW Documentary وثائقية دي دبليو (Arabic): https://www.youtube.com/dwdocarabia ⮞ DW Doku (German): https://www.youtube.com/dwdoku ⮞ DW Documentary हिन्दी (Hindi): https://www.youtube.com/dwdochindi For more visit: http://www.dw.com/en/tv/docfilm/s-3610 Follow DW Documentary on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwdocumentary/ Follow DW Documental on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwdocumental We kindly ask viewers to read and stick to the DW netiquette policy on our channel: https://p.dw.com/p/MF1G
  • Cyrus DraegurEnglish
    86·
    1 year ago

    i wish i could take the entirety of everything these companies compiled about me,

    dump them into a generative pre-trained transformer language model as training data,

    and POTENTIALLY tell me to go fuck myself.

    or hey maybe i’ll actually like this simulacrum. unlikely, but not entirely impossible.

    or furthermore it might help me get a more accurate grasp of my shortcomings instead of the paranoid hallucinatory delusional shit.

    the thing about an LLM is that it just takes a screaming leap based on what’s already there. It WILL generate an output. And if I’m the only one interacting with this predictive model of myself, I can shortcut the process of pussyfooting around until i embrace a snap decision by creating a snap decision instantly AND THEN improving on it. It’ll readily cough up something that I might do, but without the prior investment of emotionally and psychologically interrogating myself for the impulse first, thus freeing up those considerable resources for actual productive insight, refining the initial impulse (or outright defying the initial impulse) using factual information

    • SOB_Van_Owen
      2·
      1 year ago

      “and POTENTIALLY tell me to go fuck myself.”

      Oooh. Catharsis.

      • Cyrus DraegurEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Right? EXACTLY!

        As much as I like self-deprecating humor, this isn’t really about self-hate because the model isn’t really me and it definitely isn’t an actual person.

        However, it can still help me gain better visibility about myself and the qualities of me that are usually invisible to me from the interior perspective.

        A diagnostic tool, and a way to perhaps address more effectively those qualities of myself which make me uncomfortable.

        Almost everybody has at least one experience of realizing, with horror “am I really like that…? oh … oh no…” and usually it’s in public. Not fun!

        The prospect of facing these discrepancies in privacy feels a lot less daunting.