AI’s most successful accomplishment is going to be its ability to parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years. Enshittification and the identification, surveillance, and targeting of dissidents.
parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years
Always the plan, funnily enough. They didn’t necessarily know what they’d need the data for, just knew it was valuable and should be sucked up and saved until the opportunity presented itself.
AI’s most successful accomplishment is going to be its ability to parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years. Enshittification and the identification, surveillance, and targeting of dissidents.
Always the plan, funnily enough. They didn’t necessarily know what they’d need the data for, just knew it was valuable and should be sucked up and saved until the opportunity presented itself.
Check out the latest episode of the excellent podcast “Search Engine”… Very much relevant and very much terrifying.