Comment by cousin_it

I like how he talks about advertising as "surveillance and manipulation". Because that's what it is. People talk about ads providing a socially important service of product discovery, but there's nothing in the ad stack that optimizes for that. Instead, every layer of the stack optimizes for selling you as much stuff as possible.

So maybe our attempts at regulation shouldn't even start with AI. We should start by regulating the surveillance and manipulation that already exists. And if we as a society can't manage even that, then our chances of successfully regulating AI are pretty slim.