I had a fleeting hope for a while that the sheer complexity of reality would thwart these forces, a la https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DystopiaIsHar

I had a fleeting hope for a while that the sheer complexity of reality would thwart these forces, a la https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DystopiaIsHard https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DystopiaIsHard -- but I'm increasingly worried that the explosion in performance of machine learning plus the fact that much of the world's population has willingly handed over their data in service of convenience will just make it a cakewalk. What is the modern digital equivalent to the War Machine (e.g. Deleuze) that can fight this? is it possible? Am I overreacting?