Cyberbullying, controlling politics, and influencing the nature of human thinking – risks that may become even greater under the new “Facebook” project. Scholars and critics of the project are calling for a “controller” for the giant company.
Meta, which was under the brand name Facebook, has started investing in a new technology project that promises to create a virtuous world, but is this world dystopian, unlike the company's promise, with billions of dollars for nothing?
That's what Liverpool Hope University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Computing, Dr David Reed, believes, believes that the ambitious project could deepen current social media and internet problems, such as data privacy concerns and cyberbullying.
Reed said, in a statement posted on the university’s website, that the “Meta” project comes with a lot of great expectations and benefits, but also frightening risks, and for this a high control system must be established to monitor the project, adding that people fear the impact of “Twitter on politics now, but your influence.” Their opinion will differ greatly when you can move someone into a war zone, for example, and show them what's really going on."
Among the other issues that Read has addressed, cyberbullying stands out, which he believes will become more influential on the mental health of individuals, as bullies are likely to become more extremist, and believes that this technological development will blur the lines between virtual reality and reality, as the dominant On this reality he would have access to an unprecedented amount of data, and thus an enormous amount of "leverage".
Reed explains that many VR prototypes have face, eye, body and hand tracking technologies, and most have advanced cameras, some even incorporating electroencephalogram (EEG) technology in order to capture brain wave patterns, meaning that whatever you say or manipulate Or you look at it or even think about it can be monitored in the virtual world, and thus it will generate a huge database of individuals. That is why he believes that it is dangerous for only one company to control this information.
Scholar Reed is not the only one criticizing the project. Another prominent critic of Metaverse is Roger McNamee, an early investor in Facebook who has since become a stinging critic of the company. Speaking at the Web Summit in Lisbon, he said he believed Facebook had rushed the new project in an attempt to cover up the company's recent scandals, IFL Science reported.
McNamee stressed in an interview with the BBC, that "Facebook" should be prevented from creating "Dystopia Metaverse", adding: "Facebook should lose the right to make their own decisions. There should be a regulator that gives prior approval. For everything they do, the amount of damage they have caused is immeasurable.”
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