▲ | Nevermark 4 days ago | |
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. |