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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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I think we need a better definition here. Is the issue really the processing power? Do we let humans get a pass because our memories are fuzzy? From your example you're assuming massive details are maintained in the AI situation which is typically not the case. To make the data useful it's consumed and turned into something useful for the system.
This is why I'm worried about legislation and legal precedent. Most people think these AI systems read a book and store the verbatim text off somewhere to reference when that isn't really the case. There may be fragments all over, and it may be able to reconstitute the text, but we don't seem to have the same issue with data being synthesized in a similar way with a human brain.
A continuous record of location + time or even something like "license plate at location plus time" is scary enough to me, and that's easily data a system could hold decades of