To exist online in 10 years, you're going to have to give a random company a face scan and photo ID and they're going to give that and everything you post to the government to spy on you for being queer, left-wing, "a criminal," or whatever. None of your data or communications will be private. The government and corporations will go through all of it.
If you don't want that to happen, you should raise a stink about "age verification" right now because that's what they're actually building.
Everyone wants to build panopticon.
They're just claiming it's to "protect children" or for "antiterrorism" efforts or immigration screening or whatever bullshit they think you're most likely to swallow.
"AI" is about automating surveillance and if you think "AI" makes mistakes now, wait until it's what the government relies on when heavily armed masked men raid your home in the middle of the night.
Companies know the ad market is dying and never worked well in the first place. Maybe they hope having all your data will make it better. But they know there's always a buyer of last resort willing to pay a premium for your personal information: the government.
Who needs a warrant?
@cwicseolfor @gwynnion don't worry, we'll always* be useful for labor! Especially if we're all desperate, then they can get away with all sorts of abuse and we'll continue working because it's our best chance at staying alive
*As a group. Individually, we'll only be useful for labor until we become "too disabled," which is a surefire thing to happen to any worker who doesn't die tragically young
@raphaelmorgan @gwynnion I actually think they’re working pretty hard to crack as much need for human labor as possible - some things will always be better done by people, but that is a shrinking iceberg when to many of these people “automated slop, and lots of it” is more appealing than excellence. Once the energy crunch is gone, which is mostly a solved issue, it’s cheaper to mechanize most things. Not in our lifetime, but two or three onward.
Of course, we could use that same technological advance to the benefit of all, but that’s just “silly” and “unrealistic” and doesn’t flatter the egos of the would-be god-kings, which is the real issue. They’re long past the point that more money actually transforms their relationship to the world or other people in it - money has an upper ceiling to its utility. But prestige, status, is a zero-sum game, so the most efficient next step is immiserating and impoverishing the majority to stand the taller. And if their fortunes take a paper hit, so what - so long as we, in aggregate, lose more.
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