To be clear...prior to this recent explosive interest in LLMs, this was already true. Snowden was over 10 years ago.

We can't start clutching our pearls now as if programmatic mass surveillance hasn't been running on all cylinders for over 20 years.

Don't get me wrong, we should absolutely care about this, everyone should. I'm just saying any vague gestures at imminent privacy-doom thanks to LLMs is liable to be doing some big favors of inadvertently sanitizing the history of prior (and still) egregious privacy offenders.

I'm just suggesting more "Yes and" and less "pearl clutching" is all.

Who, exactly, is the "we" who you see "pearl clutching" instead of "yes and-ing"?