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dylan604 6 hours ago

"what is Fivecast ONYX? an AI-powered surveillance platform purchased by ICE for $4.2 million and CBP for additional license costs. according to Fivecast’s own documentation and EFF’s reporting, they do automated collection of multimedia data from social media and dark web, build “digital footprints” from biographical data, tracks shifts in sentiment and emotion, assigns risk scores, searches across 300+ platforms and 28+ billion data points, identifies people with “violent tendencies”"

Glad to know that my tinfoil hat wasn't too tight when social media came to be and this obvious use was predicted. How quickly will not having social media accounts become a crime?

varenc 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

According to Persona's damage control article[0], the subdomain had "onyx" in its name because that's the internal code name for the project, and it's named after the pokémon Onyx. No connection to Fivecast ONYX.

[0] https://withpersona.com/blog/post-incident-review-source-map...

crimsoneer 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't really understand why ICE would have a Persona OPenAI connection...?

pseudosaid 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Really? Sounds like they are a customer.

jcgrillo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not a crime, necessarily, just a hefty debit against your social credit score.

ok_dad 19 minutes ago | parent [-]

Or a precursor to minority report precrime

fooker 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> How quickly will not having social media accounts become a crime?

Ah, it already is. Just being trialed against people with less rights and no voting power.

Since the last several months, your US visa will be rejected if you do not submit public social media profiles.

If you think the government is spending a hundred billions on this category of tech for vetting a few thousand people, you are a prime candidate to buy a bridge that I can sell you for a discount.

UntappedShelf21 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I got into the USA in September last year. On my esta I put a private instagram account I begrudgingly made to talk to some friends, and my LinkedIn. I guess that’s enough data?

galangalalgol 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Can I just ask gpt to ask me questions to create my profile directly? I can't be bothered with any social media. Whatever it is supposed to addict me with is missing, I just find it all very boring.

a_victorp 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's already frowned upon when crossing the border

antonvs 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Finally, a use for my LinkedIn account. In fact I think I might start posting AI slop to it.

tamimio 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We need a list of these 300+ platforms

morkalork 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm 99% sure this is one of them. I thought 404media posted a leaked list of the platforms once but I can't find it. Search is dead (this is a general statement)