Sadly, Percisely. Digital Forensics (the evidence of nothing by the way, a great book), is approaching little more than gluing together datasets from various completely fungible entities. I too could be a master investigator if I could simply compel various busnisses to gift me the tables needed!

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Nevermark 4 days ago | parent [-]

Pretty soon they will be able to run all our information through a language model.

Models could identify "suspicious" behavior and generate plausible theories to fit the desired witch hunt, based on what they read. Scary.

	▲	tastyfreeze 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That is essentially what has been done since the FBI Carnivore software circa 1997. The software gets more complicated but the goal is the same. I assume that the drive for better AI models is in part driven by intelligence agency needs to categorize mountains of data to build profiles of individuals.
	▲	conductr 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The eventuality is of course a dystopian thought police situation, where simply thinking or even Googling something suggesting you were even contemplating something illegal will be grounds to charge you with the crime.