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OpenAI reportedly developed a tool that transcribes audio from YouTube videos.
— Read on www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/04/07/tech-companies-find-the-edge-of-the-internet

— As this weird phenomenon enters our knowledge we must wonder:

Is data itself an ideological domain.

This is to ask if the “data” that the internet homes is itself assuming a certain kind of understanding, a certain meaning of what data is.

What IS DATA?

data (n.)

Etymology Online gives us the following definitions:

1640’s: “a fact given or granted,” classical plural of datum, from Latin datum “(thing) given,” neuter past participle of dare “to give” (from PIE root *do-“to give”). In classical use originally “a fact given as the basis for calculation in mathematical problems.” From 1897 as “numerical facts collected for future reference.”

The meaning “transmittable and storable information by which computer operations are performed” is recorded by 1946.

If we can take seriously the article that A.I./internet is running out of data to synthesize, then we come across a point — rather, many points — of inflection (s).

• Definition is not all the data.
  • If we are looking to understand what is happening here, then whatever we define must not be what is being dealt with. 
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• Data is not factual as content.
  • The facts are not accounted for by data, but data puts forth a particular promotion of what facts are.
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• The internet, a method of storage, does not account for all the storable information.
  •  Again, the data the internet is running out of is a particular kind of information. 

When we start to ponder these basic facts, we enter into an epistemological domain that becomes effectively more difficult. 

• Most people do not think and do not want to think.
• • Many might ask of me to produce a definition of “thinking” to justify my point here. But if we have understood the above situation, then we run into a problem that most will not wish to ponder. This is because when we observe what is happening, we notice knowledge that does not comply with the definitional data that is organized to be known as thought or thinking. 
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• If definition does not account for all the data, and data is not necessarily factual, then we must begin to ask into routes of vectors upon or through which people gain their knowledge.
• • The difficulty or inherent challenge that arises as experience (experiential data) of knowledge that exceeds the data compels and catalyizes people to look back into the content of data for the meaning of the difficulty. 
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  • This method for finding the facts of data produces a truncated form of knowledge, that is, as represented by the possibility of internet data coming to and end.
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  • Due to the epistemological redundancy, what we could call a system of ideas, or ideology, the challenge will be met and effectively placated by producing more data for the ideology to process as definition. 
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  • As thinking is defined, thinking itself is denied in the ideological placation. 

Most people do not think nor want to think because, on one hand, they simply behave according to the ideological definition for what it is to be a person dealing with the data of the world. In our moment, the world is the world of data, represented by the internet. On the other hand, most people are not thinking because they refer their activities of knowledge to the redundant database of given (definitional) ideology. 

The significance of this situation does not thereby mean that anything is wrong, but rather defines a situation that is usually, regularly, and typically not noticed and deemed moot by the automatic standard of looking to and seeking definition through the particular route of established semantic data. This kind of definition is ruled out as an ethical norm: only ideological content is permitted to be considered as real information. 

Something is happening that most people cannot comprehend, and indeed the conglomerate of of individuals come together in culture to defend against the realization of this universal process, although it is happening at every moment of knowing.