[Otterly99]

I was asking myself the same question this morning and kind of came to the same conclusion as you. It makes much more sense to design a automated drone piloting system built with a decision-making algorithm than use a LLM. For Mass surveillance, I can see a bit more the use case, where you can use classical methods to process the information about a specific person but use the LLM to generate summaries or synthesize it when you have information that is not too organized or comes from different sources. I definitely think there is some overconfidence on the side of the decision makers in the government on what these tools can be used for. Also maybe some wishful thinking on what LLMs will be able to do in a few years?