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The point isn't to get it right. It's about what people with more power and capital than you will do when the AI makes the wrong inferences about you.


Maybe you need to spell out what you're implying because it's not very clear. I don't understand what's so bad about wrong inferences. I've been living with wrong inferences my whole life - it's usually others that are made the fool.

In this particular case it means that you end up with really bad ad targeting. I'm happy with that, it's much easier to dismiss and roll your eyes at scam junk ads than ones that actually know how to manipulate you...




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