only for work when i can't avoid it (policy). it's insane to me how much information people feed into these systems willingly.

while used ethically it is a compression of knowledge and this is a good use case to quickly get at least a starting point on something unknown.

however, used unethically it can predict how people would react (statistically) to social issues. while there's not much people can do to avoid companies stealing their data, using these models increases their data size on you. i believe this is the real reason the wealthy are investing heavily, because it's a system of control.

this has already happened, look at Cambridge Analytica where models were used against private user data to identify who to target ads and what content to serve them.