The problem I have with it, with big data - what personal information about me is in there. Who’s keeping it? Where can I access it, and who else can access it.
I see it ultimately as a huge database whereby shady characters (like all democrats and half the republicans, along with plenty of other entities) can use that information against me, or to steer my behavior. Social credit score kind of stuff.
And when you toss in surveillance like flock cameras, well, just wait until the next plandemic. We will all be prisoners in our own homes.
If it’s just about storing images and moving emails (which are not secure) and texts around the internet, that’s one thing. Controlling internet traffic, all that. But that’s not what I think big data is doing. The exponential increase in capacity means an exponential increase in information being acquired and stored.
AI supports it because AI is programmed to support it. AI uses it. AI _is_ big data. I don’t really see most AI as anything more than a glorified search engine, complete with all the biases that its creators have decided to include.
If you look at a VPN you can see all the different places you can choose to be your pretend internet home country. Internet traffic gets routed without regard to national boundries, but I think that most of our traffic will remain within the US given the large number of data centers within this country.