The Metaverse: An AI Take
The metaverse is a virtual shared space where people can interact and engage with each other and with digital objects and environments. As the metaverse becomes more popular and more people spend time in virtual worlds, there are increasing concerns about privacy.
Some potential privacy concerns in the metaverse include:
- The collection and use of personal data: As people interact in the metaverse, they may generate a significant amount of personal data, such as their location, movements, and interactions with other users and digital objects. This data may be collected and used by metaverse operators and other third parties for various purposes, such as advertising and analytics.
- The lack of privacy controls: Many metaverse platforms and virtual worlds do not provide users with granular control over their privacy settings and the data that is collected about them. This can make it difficult for users to protect their personal information and limit the amount of data that is shared with others.
- The potential for surveillance and tracking: The ability to monitor and track users in the metaverse raises concerns about surveillance and the potential for abuse. For example, users may be tracked without their knowledge or consent, or their personal data may be used for purposes that they did not anticipate or agree to.
Overall, privacy concerns in the metaverse are an important issue that will need to be addressed as the technology and the virtual world market continue to evolve.
The above was written by #chatgpt by OpenAI. Note its utter lack of spirit and its didactic ho-humminess. It also doesn’t point out metaverse-specific privacy concerns, which include the ability for VR gear to read everything from your pulse to your eye movements as you interact with a virtual world.
As per Louis Rosenberg’s warnings, VR software shifting the immersive world around you according to your data could decimate free will when it comes to selling you stuff.
AR software has the same characteristics, albeit in lesser form. Its providers are watching everything you look at while you’re walking in their store and gauging each reaction via your app input to serve up more of their goods according to what they learn about you.
But I am scared to death when it comes to the ramifications of participating in a completely immersive experience built by someone who wants my money. I admit it.
Anyway, it gave me some easy content to share, but I don’t feel that #chatgpt cuts the mustard for any content creator who is interested in anything more than just churning out product.
It doesn’t write hashtags, either.
