"nothing to hide = nothing to fear" Tell me, if you were to be stalked physically 24/7, even if you knew you were in no harm, you're just being watched, how would you feel?
Bad question lmfao, stop asking for personal experience otherwise you're gonna get answer that don't fit your narrative, even if it's a good narrative. Instead ask general questions that have the truth and value to them aligned with your narrative. Personally the answer would be: "good, like someone finally cares about me". Now that answer doesn't help you much does it? You can't control what mental condition the person answering your poorly thought-out subjective question has and hence you generate a completely random narrative each time someone reads this question. Bruh.
@@craftminerCZ generally the question works, but you are right in the sense that argumentitive pedantic twats will answer the question and give a stupid answer just to be awkward. The whole point is that it's a personal question to make people put themselves into the perspective, it isn't to push a narrative.
I keep getting ads about English lessons/teachers. Meanwhile literally everything I do on the internet is in English (it's my second language but I'm fluent in it, if that's not clear by now) Yet if I mention anything specific, lets say, cheese brands, with my wife on WhatsApp, 1-2 days later I'll start getting ads about cheese brands. Not sure what the fuck is going on but there's seriously something wrong with targeted ads algorithm lol
I get recommended everything, but recently its been anime which I don't watch, learning about business at random points, grammarly, which I have auto correct for... wait, can they know my misspellings?
Just a nitpik: Cookies aren't actually code as in something like javascript. Cookies are literally just a string of data. It's essentially a fingerprint that can be reported back to a company whenever your computer interacts with their servers. Most often it's in the form of something like an or script tag that gets embedded into other websites. When you visit that website, your browser is connecting in the background to the company who put the cookie there. The cookie itself isn't doing anything.
@@veryexciteddog963 When visiting a Website it can place cookies, these are used for many things for example saving accounts or prefrences like dark mode light mode, but they can also be used for tracking, many website for example have google advertisings or analytics built in this means google can write down that you visited a certain site, but one important thing to note is that cookies are just one of many things that can be used for tracking.
It’s funny when Redditors think they’re anonymous. All your cringy comments will be exposed one day. Remember, all your upvotes are worth precisely $0.00.
It’s funny when UA-camrs think they’re anonymous. All your cringy comments will be exposed one day. Remember, all your likes are worth precisely £0.00.
The funny thing about the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument is that it ignores the idea that the things you don't need to hide today could be things you'll need to hide later. If something normal you did suddenly became illegal, you certainly wouldn't want that information out in the open, would you?
@@nomlo2513 In my case it might be being gay. I'm fairly open about that online - and I doubt this would ever happen where I live, but if it _was_ made illegal, I would really not like that data to be out there. Certainly this could be a problem right now in many countries.
@@HossuhAffasHomBOSS I certainly hope not, but that isn't really the point. There are countries where it is illegal today, and even if they're not 'first world', I'm sure some of them are plenty capable of using this information.
Fortunately, most laws are not retroactive, so you can declare that you shouldn't be punished because you did it before the action was declared illegal. The government and even the society may look you with caution though.
The internet has been like this since 9/11.we only found about mass surveillance due to some whistblowers from the CIA and the NSA most famously Edward Snowden.
Good video! Just want to clear something up. At 4:12 you say that the AIs "code themselves their programming language that they made up". As far as I'm aware, this isn't really an accurate way to describe what's going on. Neural networks are just a bunch of matrix-vector multiplications. If personalized ads use neural networks (and I'm not sure if they do?) the input vector (which contains all quantifiable input that they can get directly, like your posts or previous clicks or anything else you tell them) is then multiplied by the matrices to get the output (e.g. it's guess for how likely you are to click on a particular ad). At first it'll be random and the guesses won't be close to accurate, but the coders program it so that it uses calculus on the training data to alter the matrix elements until it find the values that maximize, or at least locally maximize, the accuracy of the guesses; if you know much about multivariable calculus you should be able to picture how this works. So the code itself is written by humans, humans specify the goal in code, humans write the code that the AI runs to get better, and humans understand in principle why it makes sense that some sets of matrix values will get you good results. The part that nobody understands is _why,_ in human-level abstracted terms, a given trained set of matrices works so well. No human could ever have come closer to guessing the right matrices for a given goal, and nobody knows how to turn the matrices back into high-level abstracted English terms that humans can understand. This also means that it's hard to tell when it will go wrong, if it will go wrong, and how it will go wrong.
I agree, I think it's more accurate to describe AI in general as "trying everything possible and then finding what works best" then ascribing it to "intelligence" the way we think of it in humans. It does arrive at solutions that are better than anything a human could come up with, but that has more to do with the sheer computing power it has rather than it inventing its own intelligence. This is why I'm skeptical about AI singularities and taking everyone's jobs and such because right now it only works when given a specific set of inputs and desired outputs, and does very little logical thinking the way humans do (there are a lot of examples of AI failing as a result of this). Also they need huge amounts of data to get these conclusions, more than a human would need to do the same thing.
@@johnsMITHhhhhh88 You said "I think it's more accurate to describe AI in general as 'trying everything possible and then finding what works best'". But no, see, that's not really accurate either! The whole _point_ of gradient descent is that it _doesn't_ have to try everything. It simply couldn't; the computational complexity is exponential in the number of dimensions, and remember, these are thousand-or million-dimensional spaces we're talking about here! It does something much more clever, which is the gradient descent algorithm (or something similar), charting a drastically more efficient path through the higher dimensional space towards a maximum. I'm not sure if I buy that it's an issue of "sheer computing power"-GPT won't have as many parameters as humans have neurons for another few years-but more importantly, I don't see why "having more computing power" isn't one aspect of being more intelligent. I don't know what you mean by "inventing its own intelligence"; as far as I'm aware, there is no instance of anything ever inventing its own intelligence. Evolution, which isn't a very intelligent process, created human intelligence; human intelligence then created current AI intelligence. As for the "specific sets of inputs" thing-the whole point of machine learning is that the AI can and does learn to perform well on data far outside of its training data. (Try thinking in terms of lossless data compression and maybe that'll help you see what I mean.) As for needing huge amounts of data, that's mostly true (though again, it's _not at all_ relevant to the question of a singularity, because machines _can_ get huge amounts of data compared to humans). That being said, while e.g. GPT is _trained_ on huge amounts of data, it very rapidly picks up patterns it hasn't seen directly before with just a couple examples (or fewer). "Few-shot learning" is the key phrase to Google if you want to learn more.
@@__-cx6lg Yes, depending on the neural network, backpropagation knows how to update the weights such that the accuracy of future predictions increase. It's just calculus and matrix algebra. I had to work with optimisation problems with number of parameters between 40 and 100, so depending on the number of samples you can have N^100 possible parameters. Astronomically huge. This is why we have numerical optimisation algorithms like gradient descent, simplex method, pattern search, etc. Basically by sampling the function you are optimising, you can make educated guesses as to which direction you need to move in parameter space and actually optimise it. But for gradient descent you do need to move in every direction by a tiny step in order to estimate the gradient, so in that sense you are "trying everything" except it's not every possible parameter. Just micro adjustments of your current parameters. But I think neural networks don't even need to do these small blind adjustments, because the programmer knows the structure of the network and can simply derive an expression for how to change the weight given it's current value and the values of the neurons connected by it. I guess it's an analytical vs numerical approach.
The neural networks mathematical matrices are not legible to humans. We can not understand how it takes input and produces certain output, only that it does. Call these matrices code, which it is, and the statement is true.
@@freedomofspeech2867 Hmm, I think it's still not true as stated. The AI doesn't code *itself*. Rather, gradient descent codes the AI. (And humans code the gradient descent.) For example, ChatGPT doesn't alter the weights of ChatGPT. Only gradient descent does. It's: Programmers -> gradient descent -> AI It's *not:* Programmers -> AI -> AI -> AI -> AI -> ... (At least, not yet...)
It's so simple, just look for alternatives. A lot of "normies" (don't know if that's the appropriate word to call them) knows the problems of internet tracking and don't do anything about it except complain a bit before forgetting. Maybe the media should talk about ways to improve privacy? I think people just assume the only way is to stop using the internet entirely. Anyways, great video. I hope people read the blogpost and realize how easy it is to improve privacy on most of the internet
I have to say, with all the information they gather on me to personalize my ads, why do I, someone who only speaks English and whose sister handles my family's phone plan, get UA-cam ads for T-Mobile in Spanish? You'd think they'd be better than this.
Well sometimes in YT I’ll get random ads in polish from mobile games or from US taco bell, even though im not polish, and taco bell doesn’t exist in my country lol
I knew my phone was listening to me with the microphone, I would talk about a thing and then immediately have that thing advertised to me the moment I open Instagram or Facebook, and it was never advertised to me before, but the moment I say it in the proximity of my phone, it's there.
This is your reminder that recently discord changes its policy from 'we promise not to watch you through your camera and listen to your microphone to ' '. *That means they removed that line entirely.*
@@technomatic6285 He totally misrepresented the way an artificial intelligence actually functions. He said cookies are small pieces of code when, in fact, the cookie itself is just a piece of data. Not only that, but he's acting like it's almost absolutely impossible to delete your cache, and the data that (for instance) Facebook has collected on you. He glosses over the parts that don't really seem that bad in order to seem woke. Fact of the matter is, he's biased.
@@emilal You're being stupid here, what else would you to if you were in his shoes? Make a 50 minute video explaining how cookies and AI works? That's not even gonna earn clicks.. Regarding the FB part, how can you be super sure either? Do you have access to the source code behind FB? No.. so why are you claiming such BS?
Well they’re not very good at it, because I have literally never had a product advertised to me on the Internet that I have actually purchased or even clicked on. Nothing that they advertised to me is ever a relevant to anything that I’m interested in, and no, I do not use ad blockers or anything of the sort.
cookies have nothing directly to do with data collections - it's javascript in general that allows it. The only thing in particular that cookies allow is crossreferencing a specifing user across multiple websites, rather than treating the user as a seperate entity on each website
This was actually experienced by me , i was talking to my friend about studying abroad, i was talking in they're DM and the next day i was seeing ads of university abroad .
Hold up, im a programmer, ive worked with cookies. They are idle, cookies can't run code or do anything, they are more like a log you have with you. Other sites can use those to comminucate with one another. Apps can do things in the background, so it sounds plausible that facebook's app for example can take pictures when you are browsing in app. But on internet versions it sounds unlikely. But then again bugs/exploits do exist, so its hard to tell exactly whats possible and what not.
By FAR the best argument was that NOT A SINGLE terrorist attack was stopped and that’s the government rational. The other points I didn’t care to much about other than the weirdly in depth stuff like Alexa recordings.
Its a good idea for a video but unfortunately its very misleading. The different bits of information are put together in a way to make you think that they are closely related and common practice with big tech companies, even though that isn’t the case most of the time. Basically all the information stems from cookies that only track which websites you visited when and from public posts. Generally no microphones are activated or pictures taken. This may have happened occasionally in the past but not in general. Also the part about knowing your sexuality is from a study where AI was only 5 or 10% more accurate than people, and facebook will likely know it from search history with weigh more accuracy. Also algorithms and artificial intelligence aren’t creating their own coding language. There once were two humanoid robots who presumably created a language, but that isn’t common practice. Also hacking is a threat, but not for the average citizen. There are just too much people on the internet to hack a significant portion of them. You run the highest risk of being hacked if you are rich or in a small demographic, which you very likely aren’t. We just think that such things must be happening because the algorithms tech companies are using have gotten so good that it’s creepy how much they can guess about us. But there are also companies working against tracking, for example Apple or DuckDuckGo.
I agree, it's a bunch of studies that are good on their own, but presented this way, they're not really showing the full picture. There's two important things: one, the sheer amount of data makes it impossible for someone to truly *spy*. All that "information" they have is often just publicly available stuff you've said online, that's the equivalent of saying it's spying for your friend to read a letter you've written him. Two, you can literally turn this off. What's all this fear mongering about when you can literally just turn it off. As a bisexual male, I've gotten god knows how many adds for tampons, vaginal infections, "men's self help" and "tests to see if you're gay" (which incidentally show you're straight despite whatever you say) just because i turnt it off, if anyone's spying on me they're doing s damn good job of hiding it.
@@evandrofilipe1526 I’m not saying they do everything perfectly, but for example they require apps to ask for permission for cross app tracking, and they implemented a vpn like service to hide your Ip-adress in the Web and in Mail. There’s certainly much more to do, but its better than some other companies.
This seems like some of it is paranoid fearmongering; phones aren't reading your texts or recording your conversations irl. It is worth being concerned about, but not like the norm or even common.
Facebook having the ability to determine your sexual preference made me lul. Imagine posting some selfies online then suddenly you get an automated message calling you gay
Actually cookies isn't the main way they do it. It's through fingerprinting. They check, IP, resolution, packet headers (Browser, OS, Phone, etc.) And more.
5:56 y'know, it's handy when "everything" is in one place, but calling person addicted just because this multifaceted place servers all* his needs without going somewhere else is unscientific
@@SultanFriendlyGuest And your political opinions... People who still think this only about money, are ignorant. These companies want power more than anything else. Just look at META and their failing virtual space project. Even though it's almost bankrupting the company, they're not backing down, cause they want to be the ones in control.
god this is the most obscene video ive seen. its fearmongering in its highest form- with incorrect information and an attempt to PROFIT off the newly instilled paranoia- by linking to their media platforms. holy crap this is venomous in predation.
This spying (or at least the more egregious spying) should be illegal... If the US (where most of these companies are based in) had any kind of competency in Washington DC, we probably wouldn’t have incidents like the ones about companies taking pictures of you without your knowledge/consent.
Cookies are not code that runs on your computer; they are information that a website can store on your computer which only the same website can read. This is useful as it can be used to identify a user who has logged on previously, enabled the dark mode, etc. Cookies can be used to track which websites the user visits through "embedded" websites like a UA-cam video in a news article, a "like on Facebook" button under a blog post, and most notably ads.
It's sort not correct describing a cookie as a piece of code that does things, since they're basically small text tokens that software (the websites you visit and their back-ends) can use to recognise you. The cookies, they do nothing.
ive always wondered if some organization would start using this private information to blackmail people, if it isn't happening already. Porn searches, nude webcam photos, lewd messages, all leaked to your family
👁️💻you're being watched You are being monitored by a machine⚙️ Watching you every second, every move, every day I finally know where (⚙️the machine🤖) is, it's social media
As a mixed policy man I urge the US to adopt a privacy human rights law which forbids data collection on ALL GROUNDS Similar to what has been established in Switzerland
The best solution to this is true social ownership of social media. All social media firms should be owned by those who use them, I recommend looking in to how consumer cooperatives work for more detail on how this would work in particular.
The author of this video took some... let's say creative liberties... in explaining how so-called "AI" works. There is no special secret computer language that keeps us from understanding neural networks. This was an admirable attempt at explaining some key concepts overall but this bit about AI being impossible to understand is nonsense. You don't need to be directly scared about the kind of "AI" that currently exists. Currently the threat is not from the technology itself but rather the people using it against you. Oh, and cookies aren't code. For the most part cookies don't directly give away any information to companies. They are simply used to identify a user agent, commonly known as a browser. This might be correlated with data that is collected by other means, but allowing a page to use cookies doesn't just give them your personal information outright.
I'd like to add to the 'nothing to hide' bit by saying this thing that I think I remember hearing from Tom Scott once. The argument really only holds up if you, and all the people you care about, agree that all the laws in your country are just. If you lived in a country where it's illegal to be gay, you definitely wouldn't want it to be possible for your government to find this out through data collected online.
…eh, a bit over-dramatic, especially the bullshit about how cookies work cookies are just text files that are sent to the server on every request to it
"nothing to hide = nothing to fear" Tell me, if you were to be stalked physically 24/7, even if you knew you were in no harm, you're just being watched, how would you feel?
Saying "I have nothing to hide" when your privacy is being breached is the same as saying "I have nothing to say" when your freedom is being breached.
Finally... a friend
nothing to say nothing to fear
Bad question lmfao, stop asking for personal experience otherwise you're gonna get answer that don't fit your narrative, even if it's a good narrative. Instead ask general questions that have the truth and value to them aligned with your narrative. Personally the answer would be: "good, like someone finally cares about me". Now that answer doesn't help you much does it? You can't control what mental condition the person answering your poorly thought-out subjective question has and hence you generate a completely random narrative each time someone reads this question. Bruh.
@@craftminerCZ generally the question works, but you are right in the sense that argumentitive pedantic twats will answer the question and give a stupid answer just to be awkward. The whole point is that it's a personal question to make people put themselves into the perspective, it isn't to push a narrative.
My personal ads are so off point, they just don’t understand that I’m dead broke and don’t give a shit about their products
I keep getting ads about English lessons/teachers. Meanwhile literally everything I do on the internet is in English (it's my second language but I'm fluent in it, if that's not clear by now)
Yet if I mention anything specific, lets say, cheese brands, with my wife on WhatsApp, 1-2 days later I'll start getting ads about cheese brands.
Not sure what the fuck is going on but there's seriously something wrong with targeted ads algorithm lol
@@devrusso it's the opposite for me I keep getting ads about German lessons EVEN though it's my primary language??
I've only ever clicked on 1 ads and that was when I bought a laptop, all the money these companies are spending on me are for nothing
I get recommended everything, but recently its been anime which I don't watch, learning about business at random points, grammarly, which I have auto correct for... wait, can they know my misspellings?
lol
“You are being watched” 10 seconds into the video my local library pops up.
this is cool and all but why does the goddamn algorithm still think im a middle aged woman with menstruation issues and 1000000000 medical issues
@@TheFalseShepphard i wish i could
It's a good strategy to fool their AI bots and feed them with disinformation nonsense instead.
@@fakeplaystore7991 which is why i write allahu akbar on random youtube comments.
Hahaha, it can't decide if I'm an allo woman who desperately wants kids or a guy that needs to shave.
I guess I am alien XD
giving mixed signals is enough to confuse them
A: "nothing to hide = nothing to fear"
B: "show me your messages and pictures."
A: "uhhh no."
B: "exactly."
Because there’s still something to hide!
This made me incredibly uncomfterble, good job.
Same, i cant use the internet in peace without being watched, scary.
your uncomfterble makes me uncomfortable.
Let them see me !! Ther is something to see
thats why i brought a flip phone haha
@@shinji5217 lmao
Look like i am stupid i only get ads about terrible mobile games
Do your profile picture is Amogus
Yes, we can tell.
Same
Like raid shadow legends or warface offers p00py games
*looks
Just a nitpik: Cookies aren't actually code as in something like javascript. Cookies are literally just a string of data. It's essentially a fingerprint that can be reported back to a company whenever your computer interacts with their servers. Most often it's in the form of something like an or script tag that gets embedded into other websites. When you visit that website, your browser is connecting in the background to the company who put the cookie there. The cookie itself isn't doing anything.
How do those cookies get put there? Through advertising services and stuff?
@@veryexciteddog963 When visiting a Website it can place cookies, these are used for many things for example saving accounts or prefrences like dark mode light mode, but they can also be used for tracking, many website for example have google advertisings or analytics built in this means google can write down that you visited a certain site, but one important thing to note is that cookies are just one of many things that can be used for tracking.
Exactly
This video is really bad as it suggest that cookies are some technology that can take photos of you and see your gps location
Very misleading
It’s funny when Redditors think they’re anonymous. All your cringy comments will be exposed one day. Remember, all your upvotes are worth precisely $0.00.
upvotes are worth more than 0.00$
@@Hajdew they’re worth one cent in Venezuelan bolivar.
lol
It’s funny when UA-camrs think they’re anonymous. All your cringy comments will be exposed one day. Remember, all your likes are worth precisely £0.00.
@@SpahGaming This reply is a certified Reddit classic
The funny thing about the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument is that it ignores the idea that the things you don't need to hide today could be things you'll need to hide later.
If something normal you did suddenly became illegal, you certainly wouldn't want that information out in the open, would you?
like what?
@@nomlo2513 In my case it might be being gay. I'm fairly open about that online - and I doubt this would ever happen where I live, but if it _was_ made illegal, I would really not like that data to be out there. Certainly this could be a problem right now in many countries.
@@cheesi It will NEVER be illegal in the first world.
@@HossuhAffasHomBOSS I certainly hope not, but that isn't really the point. There are countries where it is illegal today, and even if they're not 'first world', I'm sure some of them are plenty capable of using this information.
Fortunately, most laws are not retroactive, so you can declare that you shouldn't be punished because you did it before the action was declared illegal. The government and even the society may look you with caution though.
I miss when I was a kid and the internet was more like how the tv was treated, not your life
The internet has been like this since 9/11.we only found about mass surveillance due to some whistblowers from the CIA and the NSA most famously Edward Snowden.
As Tom Scott put it:
"Nothing to hide only works if the folks in power share the values of you and the folks you know, *entirely,* and *always* will"
which video was this from?
"There are things online that you can discover..."
*Shows lots of pictures including Chris-chan*
Me: and some you wish you could forget.
i love how the internet and man on the moon are more important than human rights on your list XD
_It's one of the humanity greatest achievement_
*Next frame is Chris Chan staring my soul
To the social media platforms,
you're the product
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Good video! Just want to clear something up. At 4:12 you say that the AIs "code themselves their programming language that they made up". As far as I'm aware, this isn't really an accurate way to describe what's going on. Neural networks are just a bunch of matrix-vector multiplications. If personalized ads use neural networks (and I'm not sure if they do?) the input vector (which contains all quantifiable input that they can get directly, like your posts or previous clicks or anything else you tell them) is then multiplied by the matrices to get the output (e.g. it's guess for how likely you are to click on a particular ad). At first it'll be random and the guesses won't be close to accurate, but the coders program it so that it uses calculus on the training data to alter the matrix elements until it find the values that maximize, or at least locally maximize, the accuracy of the guesses; if you know much about multivariable calculus you should be able to picture how this works.
So the code itself is written by humans, humans specify the goal in code, humans write the code that the AI runs to get better, and humans understand in principle why it makes sense that some sets of matrix values will get you good results. The part that nobody understands is _why,_ in human-level abstracted terms, a given trained set of matrices works so well. No human could ever have come closer to guessing the right matrices for a given goal, and nobody knows how to turn the matrices back into high-level abstracted English terms that humans can understand. This also means that it's hard to tell when it will go wrong, if it will go wrong, and how it will go wrong.
I agree, I think it's more accurate to describe AI in general as "trying everything possible and then finding what works best" then ascribing it to "intelligence" the way we think of it in humans. It does arrive at solutions that are better than anything a human could come up with, but that has more to do with the sheer computing power it has rather than it inventing its own intelligence. This is why I'm skeptical about AI singularities and taking everyone's jobs and such because right now it only works when given a specific set of inputs and desired outputs, and does very little logical thinking the way humans do (there are a lot of examples of AI failing as a result of this). Also they need huge amounts of data to get these conclusions, more than a human would need to do the same thing.
@@johnsMITHhhhhh88 You said "I think it's more accurate to describe AI in general as 'trying everything possible and then finding what works best'". But no, see, that's not really accurate either! The whole _point_ of gradient descent is that it _doesn't_ have to try everything. It simply couldn't; the computational complexity is exponential in the number of dimensions, and remember, these are thousand-or million-dimensional spaces we're talking about here! It does something much more clever, which is the gradient descent algorithm (or something similar), charting a drastically more efficient path through the higher dimensional space towards a maximum.
I'm not sure if I buy that it's an issue of "sheer computing power"-GPT won't have as many parameters as humans have neurons for another few years-but more importantly, I don't see why "having more computing power" isn't one aspect of being more intelligent.
I don't know what you mean by "inventing its own intelligence"; as far as I'm aware, there is no instance of anything ever inventing its own intelligence. Evolution, which isn't a very intelligent process, created human intelligence; human intelligence then created current AI intelligence.
As for the "specific sets of inputs" thing-the whole point of machine learning is that the AI can and does learn to perform well on data far outside of its training data. (Try thinking in terms of lossless data compression and maybe that'll help you see what I mean.)
As for needing huge amounts of data, that's mostly true (though again, it's _not at all_ relevant to the question of a singularity, because machines _can_ get huge amounts of data compared to humans). That being said, while e.g. GPT is _trained_ on huge amounts of data, it very rapidly picks up patterns it hasn't seen directly before with just a couple examples (or fewer). "Few-shot learning" is the key phrase to Google if you want to learn more.
@@__-cx6lg Yes, depending on the neural network, backpropagation knows how to update the weights such that the accuracy of future predictions increase. It's just calculus and matrix algebra. I had to work with optimisation problems with number of parameters between 40 and 100, so depending on the number of samples you can have N^100 possible parameters. Astronomically huge. This is why we have numerical optimisation algorithms like gradient descent, simplex method, pattern search, etc.
Basically by sampling the function you are optimising, you can make educated guesses as to which direction you need to move in parameter space and actually optimise it. But for gradient descent you do need to move in every direction by a tiny step in order to estimate the gradient, so in that sense you are "trying everything" except it's not every possible parameter. Just micro adjustments of your current parameters.
But I think neural networks don't even need to do these small blind adjustments, because the programmer knows the structure of the network and can simply derive an expression for how to change the weight given it's current value and the values of the neurons connected by it. I guess it's an analytical vs numerical approach.
The neural networks mathematical matrices are not legible to humans. We can not understand how it takes input and produces certain output, only that it does. Call these matrices code, which it is, and the statement is true.
@@freedomofspeech2867 Hmm, I think it's still not true as stated. The AI doesn't code *itself*. Rather, gradient descent codes the AI. (And humans code the gradient descent.) For example, ChatGPT doesn't alter the weights of ChatGPT. Only gradient descent does. It's:
Programmers -> gradient descent -> AI
It's *not:*
Programmers -> AI -> AI -> AI -> AI -> ...
(At least, not yet...)
I have to agree that pizza and blade runner are among top 30 humanity achievements
The fact that we have to go out of our ways to ensure our privacy stays safe...
they are the ones who get traumatised not me
The Social Dilemma is a pretty good watch if you want to know more about this subject
@Luigina Trotta grande Luigina!!!
@Luigina Trotta grammar much?
@Luigina Trotta finally someone that gets it
@Luigina Trotta ikr
It's so simple, just look for alternatives. A lot of "normies" (don't know if that's the appropriate word to call them) knows the problems of internet tracking and don't do anything about it except complain a bit before forgetting. Maybe the media should talk about ways to improve privacy? I think people just assume the only way is to stop using the internet entirely.
Anyways, great video. I hope people read the blogpost and realize how easy it is to improve privacy on most of the internet
I have to say, with all the information they gather on me to personalize my ads, why do I, someone who only speaks English and whose sister handles my family's phone plan, get UA-cam ads for T-Mobile in Spanish? You'd think they'd be better than this.
Well sometimes in YT I’ll get random ads in polish from mobile games or from US taco bell, even though im not polish, and taco bell doesn’t exist in my country lol
I knew my phone was listening to me with the microphone, I would talk about a thing and then immediately have that thing advertised to me the moment I open Instagram or Facebook, and it was never advertised to me before, but the moment I say it in the proximity of my phone, it's there.
This is your reminder that recently discord changes its policy from 'we promise not to watch you through your camera and listen to your microphone to ' '.
*That means they removed that line entirely.*
This video is criminally underrated... Goddamn
This video is criminally under researched… Goddamn
@@emilal What about the video is "criminally under researched"? Can you give some insight?
@@technomatic6285 He totally misrepresented the way an artificial intelligence actually functions. He said cookies are small pieces of code when, in fact, the cookie itself is just a piece of data. Not only that, but he's acting like it's almost absolutely impossible to delete your cache, and the data that (for instance) Facebook has collected on you. He glosses over the parts that don't really seem that bad in order to seem woke. Fact of the matter is, he's biased.
@@emilal You're being stupid here, what else would you to if you were in his shoes? Make a 50 minute video explaining how cookies and AI works? That's not even gonna earn clicks.. Regarding the FB part, how can you be super sure either? Do you have access to the source code behind FB? No.. so why are you claiming such BS?
Well they’re not very good at it, because I have literally never had a product advertised to me on the Internet that I have actually purchased or even clicked on. Nothing that they advertised to me is ever a relevant to anything that I’m interested in, and no, I do not use ad blockers or anything of the sort.
Pretty sure that Google still believes I was born in 1910.
This is the best explanation about how everyone sells your information
the fact that all of this is just to make adverts more effective is the most realistic and boring outcome
cookies have nothing directly to do with data collections - it's javascript in general that allows it. The only thing in particular that cookies allow is crossreferencing a specifing user across multiple websites, rather than treating the user as a seperate entity on each website
Holy shit is that the genius of lifeweb man?
This is the best example nothing is free in this world you need a payment for what you get for free
Except FOSS and creative commons and several other things.
This was actually experienced by me , i was talking to my friend about studying abroad, i was talking in they're DM and the next day i was seeing ads of university abroad .
Hold up, im a programmer, ive worked with cookies.
They are idle, cookies can't run code or do anything, they are more like a log you have with you.
Other sites can use those to comminucate with one another.
Apps can do things in the background, so it sounds plausible that facebook's app for example can take pictures when you are browsing in app.
But on internet versions it sounds unlikely.
But then again bugs/exploits do exist, so its hard to tell exactly whats possible and what not.
and what of fingerprinting code?
9:32 I like how Australia and New Zealand are considered "The West"
Funnily enough if you're buying nothing online, online ads will go wild
3:55 So you're telling me that companies have gotten better at giving people what they want? Oh the humanity
Literally earlier today I got an ad for a “AM I GAY?” Quiz... wow. I mean thanks but I’ve known for like 6 years now?
You know he’s spitting facts cuz the view count of this well done video has little engagement.
lol
some of the other comments talk about the technical side though
fax cuz no dislikes! thanks youtube!!!!!!!!!!!
Imagine just hearing your dumb questions to Alexa on some random Amazon workers Facebook
Accidentally hit "
Me with an AdBlocker: What is an ad?
Can we just call in an airstrike on facebook servers or something
By FAR the best argument was that NOT A SINGLE terrorist attack was stopped and that’s the government rational. The other points I didn’t care to much about other than the weirdly in depth stuff like Alexa recordings.
I always knew the fbi were watching me
Its a good idea for a video but unfortunately its very misleading. The different bits of information are put together in a way to make you think that they are closely related and common practice with big tech companies, even though that isn’t the case most of the time.
Basically all the information stems from cookies that only track which websites you visited when and from public posts.
Generally no microphones are activated or pictures taken. This may have happened occasionally in the past but not in general.
Also the part about knowing your sexuality is from a study where AI was only 5 or 10% more accurate than people, and facebook will likely know it from search history with weigh more accuracy.
Also algorithms and artificial intelligence aren’t creating their own coding language. There once were two humanoid robots who presumably created a language, but that isn’t common practice.
Also hacking is a threat, but not for the average citizen. There are just too much people on the internet to hack a significant portion of them. You run the highest risk of being hacked if you are rich or in a small demographic, which you very likely aren’t.
We just think that such things must be happening because the algorithms tech companies are using have gotten so good that it’s creepy how much they can guess about us. But there are also companies working against tracking, for example Apple or DuckDuckGo.
I agree, it's a bunch of studies that are good on their own, but presented this way, they're not really showing the full picture.
There's two important things: one, the sheer amount of data makes it impossible for someone to truly *spy*. All that "information" they have is often just publicly available stuff you've said online, that's the equivalent of saying it's spying for your friend to read a letter you've written him.
Two, you can literally turn this off. What's all this fear mongering about when you can literally just turn it off.
As a bisexual male, I've gotten god knows how many adds for tampons, vaginal infections, "men's self help" and "tests to see if you're gay" (which incidentally show you're straight despite whatever you say) just because i turnt it off, if anyone's spying on me they're doing s damn good job of hiding it.
I'm sorry, apple, working AGAINST tracking?
@@evandrofilipe1526 I’m not saying they do everything perfectly, but for example they require apps to ask for permission for cross app tracking, and they implemented a vpn like service to hide your Ip-adress in the Web and in Mail. There’s certainly much more to do, but its better than some other companies.
@@evandrofilipe1526 yeah
@@andr_line That aged well...
When you google how to make a bomb because you are bored and accidentally end up with a parked van outside your house everyday
Update on the van?
This seems like some of it is paranoid fearmongering; phones aren't reading your texts or recording your conversations irl. It is worth being concerned about, but not like the norm or even common.
Facebook having the ability to determine your sexual preference made me lul. Imagine posting some selfies online then suddenly you get an automated message calling you gay
Y r u gae?
Actually cookies isn't the main way they do it. It's through fingerprinting. They check, IP, resolution, packet headers (Browser, OS, Phone, etc.) And more.
5:56 y'know, it's handy when "everything" is in one place, but calling person addicted just because this multifaceted place servers all* his needs without going somewhere else is unscientific
On the bright side is that without cookies we wouldn't come across this video
I'd like to apologise to the most bored government spook in history.
For mental heath reasons I am required to contest your statement.
Seriously, I am NOT about to go down that depression induced paranoia again
Yes, they are watching us but they absolutely do not give a flying fuck about us. Only your buying power matters to them.
@@SultanFriendlyGuest And your political opinions... People who still think this only about money, are ignorant. These companies want power more than anything else. Just look at META and their failing virtual space project. Even though it's almost bankrupting the company, they're not backing down, cause they want to be the ones in control.
I use this to my advantage by texting fake contacts and talking about certain stuff I'd like to buy so that i may get a discounted price from an ad
Your channel “just popped up” in my feed. Never searched for your type of content…. Or did I …. Keep up the good work ✊Fight the Power ✊
that makes me and my FBI agent both men of culture
god this is the most obscene video ive seen.
its fearmongering in its highest form- with incorrect information and an attempt to PROFIT off the newly instilled paranoia- by linking to their media platforms.
holy crap this is venomous in predation.
This spying (or at least the more egregious spying) should be illegal...
If the US (where most of these companies are based in) had any kind of competency in Washington DC, we probably wouldn’t have incidents like the ones about companies taking pictures of you without your knowledge/consent.
Cookies are not code that runs on your computer; they are information that a website can store on your computer which only the same website can read. This is useful as it can be used to identify a user who has logged on previously, enabled the dark mode, etc. Cookies can be used to track which websites the user visits through "embedded" websites like a UA-cam video in a news article, a "like on Facebook" button under a blog post, and most notably ads.
This is the one correction comment that should have been upvoted to the top
The economist ad, that sounds like me
It's funny since I block all ads I'm giving up my soul for literally nothing
Wow finally someone that cares about me!
What? What did you say?
They only want my money???
The information they collect about you is pointless if you use an ad blocker.
I don't have to worry about this because I use incognito mode 😎
Three words: Ad Block Plus
0:07 I know far too many of those things...
silent mute out of sight jumpscare warning
It's sort not correct describing a cookie as a piece of code that does things, since they're basically small text tokens that software (the websites you visit and their back-ends) can use to recognise you. The cookies, they do nothing.
ive always wondered if some organization would start using this private information to blackmail people, if it isn't happening already. Porn searches, nude webcam photos, lewd messages, all leaked to your family
Pay to Amazon for a subscription => They track you anyways => They sell that => Epic trolling. More money. Great success!
I am living in your walls
I am living in your walls
I am living in your walls
I am living in your walls
I am living in your walls
Welcome to the comments officer.
👁️💻you're being watched You are being monitored by a machine⚙️
Watching you every second, every move, every day
I finally know where (⚙️the machine🤖) is, it's social media
They only get that information if you share it with others on social platforms. It is extremely easy to stop sharing. The choice is yours.
As a mixed policy man I urge the US to adopt a privacy human rights law which forbids data collection on ALL GROUNDS
Similar to what has been established in Switzerland
This is why I never bought into the two factor authentication hype.
The best solution to this is true social ownership of social media. All social media firms should be owned by those who use them, I recommend looking in to how consumer cooperatives work for more detail on how this would work in particular.
Even with all that data they can’t make a good Ad. When’s the last time you’ve seen an Ad that isn’t the stupidest thing you’ve seen that day.
6:35 - i wouldnt mind paying 12 dollars a year to keep full privacy
Wait if I’m doing my swong and they looked at my camera aren’t they committing a crime (I’m a minor) and in my country there is a privacy law too
Industrial society and its future...
my ads so terrible. i hate them because never relative and i dont like.
so annoying ads
is little old cyprus safe lads?
4:14 This made me think of the game Universal Paperclips. Scary how we don’t know what the AI is doing
The author of this video took some... let's say creative liberties... in explaining how so-called "AI" works. There is no special secret computer language that keeps us from understanding neural networks. This was an admirable attempt at explaining some key concepts overall but this bit about AI being impossible to understand is nonsense. You don't need to be directly scared about the kind of "AI" that currently exists. Currently the threat is not from the technology itself but rather the people using it against you.
Oh, and cookies aren't code. For the most part cookies don't directly give away any information to companies. They are simply used to identify a user agent, commonly known as a browser. This might be correlated with data that is collected by other means, but allowing a page to use cookies doesn't just give them your personal information outright.
@@cmwh1te The AI does not use code we dont understand, thats true. But the so called "hidden layer" in ai development is not called that out of fun..
britmonkey:you are being watched
Me:Yeah tell me something I don't shitish guy
Man my FBI agent is getting nervous.
French Guiana: "How do you do fellow Western powers?"
all this data collection and i still see the most absolute shit ads
I have yet to get a single k-on sticker ad
At the end I really thought it was all about Nord VPN
I'd like to add to the 'nothing to hide' bit by saying this thing that I think I remember hearing from Tom Scott once.
The argument really only holds up if you, and all the people you care about, agree that all the laws in your country are just. If you lived in a country where it's illegal to be gay, you definitely wouldn't want it to be possible for your government to find this out through data collected online.
I am so erratic that it fails most of the time. I laught at the algotithm.
*at ads
Me when I modded my OS to strip advertising crap out
…eh, a bit over-dramatic, especially the bullshit about how cookies work
cookies are just text files that are sent to the server on every request to it
Use a VPN, a browser that blocks cookies, dont user your real name on social media, and use multiple seperate email accounts. Its simple and easy.
This vid would be absolutely perfect with the Nord VPN ad
0:05 bro thinks they the man on the moon is the second greatest achievement 💀💀
Internet ads? What's that? I haven't seen any of those in a long, long time.
0:03 I love how Blade Runner comes before "The discovery of Fire" and "Invention of the Wheel" lol