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This is the great filter upon us more than anything else, even nuclear armageddon. Virtually every "democracy" has a comprehensive camera monitoring system, ta
by AtlasBarfed 1y ago
This is the great filter upon us more than anything else, even nuclear armageddon.
Virtually every "democracy" has a comprehensive camera monitoring system, tap into comm networks, have access to full social graph, whatever you buy,know all your finances, and if you take measures to hide it ... Know that you do that.
Previously the fire hose information being greater than the capability of governments to process it was our saving Grace from TurnKey totalitarianism.
With AI it's right there. Simple button push. And unlike nuclear weapons, it can be activated and no immediate klaxon sounds up. It can be ratcheted up like a slow boil, if they want to be nice.
Oh did I forget something? Oh right. Drones! Drones everywhere.
Oh wait, did I forget ANOTHER thing? Right right, everyone has mobile devices tracking their locations, with remote activatable cameras and microphones.
So ... Yeah.
- timewizard 1y agoWe can generate noise. Garbage data. Huge amounts of it. The asymmetry of this tactic is massively in our favor.
- bix6 1y agoCan you? How do you spoof your bank accounts?
- komali2 1y agoNeal Stephenson seems prophetic in this sense. In "Fall," someone does exactly that - leverage what nowadays we'd call LLMs but micro ones deployable as a massive botnet, that take a given topic and vomit out unfilterable torrents of garbage about it. In the novel the POC for it is to divide the world into those that believe a small town in Utah was nuked, and those that don't. The deployment completely destroys the internet as well as a large swath of American sovereignty in its own borders, as a portion of the population becomes AI-addled ungovernable jihadists that spend half their time drooling over AI generated images and the other half crucifying heretics.
- reverius42 1y ago> a portion of the population becomes AI-addled ungovernable jihadists that spend half their time drooling over AI generated images and the other half crucifying heretics. That almost sounds like it describes current reality.
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- AtlasBarfed 1y agoSo essentially we spam the internet from the partial unusability it currently is, to a total unusability? It still doesn't solve the problem of their dedicated drones/sensors/cameras, unless you get dozens of robots trained to look, walk, talk like you. And as someone else said, banks are controlled, crypto is pretty shady.
- cookiengineer 1y agoSo ... what do we do to fix it?
- ImPostingOnHN 1y agoperson falling down a huge cliff and hitting all the rocks on the way down: "how do we fix this?" I dunno, turn back time?