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Not only the telescreens, but my impression of the world in 1984 is that the surveillance depended on an army of watchers at the opposite end. Today we have mo
by rustcleaner 26d ago
Not only the telescreens, but my impression of the world in 1984 is that the surveillance depended on an army of watchers at the opposite end. Today we have models of all kinds: classification models, speech to text models, large language models, etc. Surveillance with our devices is automated, no human army of watchers needed!
- fuzzfactor 25d ago1973 was not supposed to be quite as grim as 1984, but "what goes in must come out". Zappa, "I'm the Slime" - https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pm3uDZxt8w https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pm3uDZxt8w "You will do as you are told until the rights to you are sold . . ."