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The US intelligence agencies have dedicated data centers of domestic and foreign surveillance [1]. Of course they are "embracing" it. Plus, people are very will
by xyst 2y ago
The US intelligence agencies have dedicated data centers of domestic and foreign surveillance [1]. Of course they are "embracing" it. Plus, people are very willing to "train" them by feeding it data. Private companies are working with social media companies to get their hands on the raw data in preparation of training on much much larger data sets.
We are very very slowly inching towards the science fiction portrayed in "1984".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
- causal 2y agoSupposedly much traffic is also being warehoused, including encrypted data, so that when decryption becomes easier it can all be read. Which means we might have to contend with a future where LLMs think about every email written, message sent, word spoken with an active mic nearby, etc. Unless civil protections are put in place to prevent this, each person is likely to have a profile built with an excruciating level of detail on their entire life. But it's not just intelligence agencies. This article talks about open-source data - even corporations building advertising profiles have access to immense data freely available online or available to purchase.