This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like by TED

Carol Cadwalladr sums up the situation of The Guardian partnering with OpenAI:

it married its rapist

Strong words, but what a way to describe the AI landscape right now. Companies gathering all they can for free and then charging a fee to see how a computer might put that content back together in answer to a question.

The more AI invades my life, the more I see value, but there is an ethical side that is just not being taken seriously.

AI may be doing more harm than good right now. It's energy intensive, it's built upon theft and you can't trust that it's output will be correct. Maybe no one cares about those first two points, but if you're not fact checking it's output then you are not using the tool correctly.

Governments should not be caving into AI companies, arguably they should not even be using AI until it is more energy efficient and it is free from bias (impossible?).

Algorithms have their own problems, as many social media companies have confirmed, but I prefer algorithms that can be explained over a tool that is wholly based upon the theft.