Blog Post #5 ~ Age of AI

Age of AI

AI is a crazy advancement in human history; when people think of AI, now they think of machines, ChatGPT, Siri, Alexa, websites, etc. AI is being used pretty much everywhere nowadays. It does have its pros, but there are still cons.

AI has been used to help in so many ways of searching when you search for something on Google or Edge. You ask something, and it gives you now an AI response and details to help you find what you're looking for or know easily. That is pretty much the same for ChatGPT. However, ChatGPT lets you do more specific things. For example, you could ask it to make up a story for you, that being a book or game, or give you a prompt for story building. The amount of stuff you can ask it to do is endless, and I'll do it for you. 

AI and privacy though can be concerning. The amount of data tracked based on websites you go to, using apps, programs, texting and calling, or even being outside, most of it is being used to train AI to learn and know human behavior. Human behavior of anyone, you, your family, friends, regular citizens out in the world, ANYONE. It's really cool in hindsight, but it brings up the question of what is actually private...

You would say your home or wherever you're staying, but is that really true?  Well no... The weather app has to gather your exact location to get you the right answer and the weather of your area so it'll know if it's going to rain or natural disasters are coming in your direction. Another example is when you're using social media, looking at and liking posts. Then you go to websites like the news, articles, or even Amazon, and it gives you related ads to things you would be interested in based on stuff you looked at and liked.

Now, of course, you can say no to some of these websites and products to not track your data, but they throw so many ways to hook you into having your data tracked. Saying like it'll improve the website performance, give you things you are interested in, or use cookies to distribute things, you know what you have saved or how many people have visited a website. To be honest, it goes on forever...

The best you can really do is just be mindful of things using your data and what's being tracked, and use measurements to help your own safety and realize what's going on around you.