"The dot-com boom may be over, but demand for technology remains strong"

-Bill Gates, 2001

Bill Gates accurately predicted the resilience of internet demand with 6 billion persons utilizing the internet today. But what is the state of the supply feeding that demand?

TL;DR

Measuring how data sources affect model behavior enables early detection of contamination, manipulation, and degradation. This replaces trust-based assumptions with verifiable signals before damage moves downstream.

Rise of bots

In 2008 I was a teenager playing World of Warcraft and was intrigued by the capabilities of botters and gold farmers. The dangers of engaging with bots for a player were losing account access to scammers or getting banned. Albeit the risks didn’t convince me at that age, there was something inexplainable about the authenticity of ownership and sense of belonging in cooperative play that mattered more. Legislation ended up forcing Blizzard and bot-providers to make changes and the integrity of one of the world’s most popular games in history was restored. In hindsight a negligible case when the scope is limited to a fraction of the population and its impact is limited to virtual gold, silver, and copper.

Cloud-induced exponential risk

Fast-forward to 2015. The cloud revolution is in full swing and vendor-locking is but a bottom-line concern. Cloud technology allowed organizations to negotiate at a strategic level, assuming responsible rollouts and best practices. The result was synergized identity access management, hosting, system architecture, monitoring, and third-party marketplaces allowing anyone to bring their ideas to life. Abstraction and lowering barriers to entry for software development blinded its adopters, the suppliers of internet content, to the imposed risk. In response, the industry came up with roles to fill the gap such as Cloud Strategist, Cloud Transformation Lead, and Cloud Governance. Nevertheless cybercrime costs the world $1 trillion per year with the cybersecurity market totalling “only” $270 billion.

Societal Impact

Progress in privacy is being undermined by an increasingly unstable world where the world’s largest powers openly perform cyberattacks, espionage, and social erosion, as well as Big Tech lobbying with little to no pushback from governments. Meta reduced its efforts combating false information. Delo...

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