Surveillance talking points laundered as anti-AI; open training data still growing
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-10-17
EleutherAI researcher Blanche Minerva flags that many pro-mass-surveillance and anti-anonymity talking points are being laundered as anti-AI arguments — long-time surveillance advocates using AI as the latest excuse to erode civil liberties. She also notes that openly licensed and public-domain training data keeps growing every year despite site restrictions, per her team's recent paper on building open training corpora.
Related event: Researcher Warns Anti-AI Rhetoric Is Laundering Mass Surveillance Agendas(2 posts)→
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