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It's the thing it does make more efficient, which was predictable. And accuracy doesn't matter. If it's 99% and the powerful are whitelisted for human review, that's enough. That's enough to pull a mesh so fine over every human being on the planet, forever, that reaches deeply into them before they can even begin to form a personality. The jump from individuals listening to individual phone calls as they were happening to what became possible in the decades after that might be smaller than the jump from that to the capability of transcribing anything anyone utters, even in their sleep, automatically, and adding it to a giant corpus of data to fish for suspects or assets or blackmail recipients in, in seconds. With then being able to act on those people as if they were a dataset (set a few flags, which systems or humans downstream heed without question, done). It's a very grave threat, and I find it interesting that people decades ago who wrote about it called it that, but now that we're in it, we find it very easy to just shrug it off. But it's the same lethal threat to what it means to be human. Privacy is required for thought, without thought there's no humanity worth mentioning, QED. |