thats why this is a legal battle as much it a technological one
it comes down to the rights to own the data you produce, and have it easily accesible. Solid is just a way of giving people option to excercise this right
I agree that this is not just a technological problem to be solved. Technology by it self can't fix the problems, but it can help nudge the human experience in good or bad way. Right now, we gave our data to large corporations and we got the lovely attention economy thats being feed on human rage, envy and greed.
Solid idea is more in line with revolution and demand for our representatives to give their people internet that can push the humanity forward, and not just let us waist countless hours on doom scrolling.
that is exactly what is going to happen, as more people become aware.
that's why we all need to exercise our rights and freedoms. I'm scared that if we fail to do this in next few years. And let the AI be used in similar ways like it has been used to create social media algorithms. Then we are all fucked!
Whoever owns your AI owns you, so it better be you who owns it!
price of intelligence is dropping day by day like it or not, sooner or later price incentives for someone to host such social media experience could become financially viable
ideally you should be able in a simple way to host your stuff, in this case in a POD. That service should be provided by a utility company, same way we have internet providers now. They will be well regulated and it would be in their interest to safely hold your data because if not, they would face legal and financial consequences.
All other services would read/write from your Pod.
current data points are much more valuable than historical data points, so storing old data doesn't have much incentives
also by having ability to enable/disable access to your data, you have the power of who gets what and for which purpose
also reselling of your data should become illegal to start with, would you be OKAY if your lawyer sells your data? or your colorectal surgeon? off course not, we have laws in place for that, and same laws should be applied to whoever handles your personal data
But those who actually want to do this should be allowed by law to practice their ownership over their data.
I, and many like me, would pay for centralised service or any other service if it meant that we own our data and can tune the algorithms to our own preferences. I wont pay for doom scrolling, but would gladly pay for algorithm to serve me content that would better my human experience.
Governments have given corporation to much power, people need to rise up agains that, if it remains the same in AI age, we humans, and our collective mind would erode to the point of no return.
All great, but what happens when personal assistant makes you think you are acting in your best interest, but actually they are just manipulating you to do 'something' OpenAi (some company) wants you to do?
Without proper ways of migrating 'your data' between AI's (platforms), you are in mercy of that assistant without any other alternatives.
Thats why GDPR and CPRA laws are becoming even more important in age of AI assistance.
This is a signal for a future where either we own our 'memories' or companies own them for us.
Technologies like Solid (https://solidproject.org/) are our only way forward. If you don't care you can use your chatgpts or whatever for whatever you want. But there are people who DO CARE about their memories.
We are no longer speaking about tiktok or instagram feeds and algorithms, as some people compare the addictive side of this (ie. OAPulse) kind of technologies to.
it shocks me seeing how people are blind to the whole offshoring thing - I'm dev from 'third' world country (in Europe) and when joined my team had 9 people out of 13 from USA. In 4 years, we are down to ONE person, and this one is on H1B visa.