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This is the kind of tool that makes me excited about the AI boom. I can imagine this being helpful for journalists. Think of a tool that you can say "Watch all
by animal_spirits 3y ago
This is the kind of tool that makes me excited about the AI boom. I can imagine this being helpful for journalists. Think of a tool that you can say "Watch all the CSPAN footage and send me an email when someone talks about $TOPIC"
- mobiuscog 3y agoGood cop, bad cop Think of a tool that you can say "Listen to all phone conversations and notify when someone talks about $TOPIC"
- linsomniac 3y ago"They" already have that tool, right?
- selimthegrim 3y agoI think their Palantir contract is over and done with
- happyopossum 3y ago"Listen to all phone conversations" The people who are in a position to do this are probably in a position to do anything else they want to do with said phone calls. What's changing is that random joes can do this stuff now.
- dingnuts 3y agoNo, modern AI tools make dragnet surveillance much easier. Imagine that the State bans a certain religion, and has the ability to automatically detect apostatic or heretical speech in private conversations without a tap, without an agent reviewing the recording, and with a fraction of the compute needed in the past No, I'm not really worried about Joe doing that, just Uncle Sam
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoGoogle does this quite efficiently. I am confident that everything going over Voice service (and probably Fi as well) is transcribed in real-time and dumped to the correct agencies. I can reliably trigger a disconnect for my calls if I blurt out a series of keywords. Distinct behavior from my mobile carrier's neutrality.
- trinsic2 3y agoIt feels more like it's going to make it easier to deceive people. It seems like, as people rely more and more on automated systems like this, it would be easy to own and change the output on the fly.