Yes, surveillance capitalism is highly profitable. AI may be enabling and magnifying that problem, but a lot of the profits at the moment are due to technology making it a lot easier to obscure business models and the difficulty in challenging "too big to fail"-sized accumulation of wealth.
The point being that while AI has some really interesting uses (with more being discovered regularly), it's profitability is probably somewhat closer to the fad tech of the 80s. It's the internet combined with very cheap, portable computers - and the shady business models they have created - that are highly profitable.
Those profits are not necessarily from AI.
> advertising, facial recognition
Yes, surveillance capitalism is highly profitable. AI may be enabling and magnifying that problem, but a lot of the profits at the moment are due to technology making it a lot easier to obscure business models and the difficulty in challenging "too big to fail"-sized accumulation of wealth.
The point being that while AI has some really interesting uses (with more being discovered regularly), it's profitability is probably somewhat closer to the fad tech of the 80s. It's the internet combined with very cheap, portable computers - and the shady business models they have created - that are highly profitable.