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Until recently, surveillance functioned much like a modern panopticon, creating the illusion of constant observation. But with AI, we’re fast approaching a reality where it will be possible to genuinely monitor everyone, all the time.
It will become possible to instantly identify 'bad' behavior, and in some cases, even raise suspicion before it occurs. I use 'bad' in quotation marks because its definition is entirely shaped by those in power. Under the wrong circumstances, what’s considered 'bad' could be a personal opinion—or even an entire ethnicity.
Social media already allows a small group of powerful oligarchs to shape what people see—and by extension, what they believe. While propaganda has always existed, social media takes it to a new level, making it harder to recognize the source. Even worse, it's personalized, creating isolated groups with entirely different sets of information and viewpoints.
With the rise of AI, however, this influence will only grow. Not only will algorithms become more advanced in how they rank and recommend content, but they’ll also be able to generate fake content or messages, passing them off as organic.
I can’t predict the future, but I’d bet that the majority of people won’t even notice this shift. Most are tech-illiterate,and tech companies dominate the flow of information, which means any discussions about this will be limited and hard to find. It won’t be a secret, per se, but discussions about it will be few and far between. When those discussions do exist, they’ll likely be watered down to avoid sounding paranoid or extreme.
How does this make you feel emotionally? How would you react to it? The implications of this technology really bother me, but I know bringing it up in real life would likely make me seem paranoid, so I just keep it to myself.
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>>322323> I just realized that anti-AI sentiment can be used as justification to remove free and open source assets from public hosting. There is a group of liberal leaning scholars, artists, hoarders etc who believe in uploading their work and resources on the internet for free. So things like historical documents, nature footage, technical manuals for example are made freely available because their uploaders believe it helps advance scholarship and culture. These resources are then, as we know, are used for AI learning. Guess where the biggest blowback against AI comes from? The liberal left that believes in making things free. Welcome to the new internet where everything is paywalled or private. I wouldn't be surprised if the government and silicon valley is fueling both pro and anti AI discourses online. We are going to get the worst of both worlds.you doofus, you juss jinxed it
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>>322326>I honestly think that the internet has been a net negative once you account for the shredded dysgenic fertility and amassed amount of effort and time wasted on trivial pursuits.
Ahahah, you're not alone!
The Internet is compared to the washing machine (there is a video on YouTube about it):
Washing machine: saves hours of life daily, no need to use washing board for hours. It's easy to use, almost "just push play" easy to use.
The Internet: Sure, saves lotsa time here, yet it also siphons, "vampires" a lot of time with notifications, updates, etc.
AND THE WINNER IS: WASHING MACHINE
(a century-old invention, mind you)
And don't get me started how freezers save our time also.
No.322336
>>322326>I honestly think that if computers never developed beyond a CLI, and GUI were restricted from being developed, the world would've been a lot better. You'd still have production gains in industry from better organization, but you wouldn't have had any of the deleterious effects from the internet. And then, saome 1337 h4><><0rz developed GUI-like contraptions out of ASCII art. Woudn't work.
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>>322326>The internet undermines dictatorships as people just want to be doomscrolling and on their gooncave. Even fucking China has this problem of people becoming slaves to gacha games and internet gossip. They simply cannot make them give it up and have 3+ kids each for the good of the motherland anymore, even North Korea is struggling on that front.Urbanization is known to ruin fertility, AFAIK
>>322327>Good.Hindu country bumpkin guys as hired workforce working for the Chinese refined metropolitan-cultured guys, with a chance to stop being a *haha fecal matter goes brrrrrt* for everyone. Not bad.