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AI is being shoe horned into all things tech to enable backdoors for the purposes of automating mass surveillance and simplifying personality profiling. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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What do you think, ChatGPT? If it can create almost perfect summaries with a prompt; why wouldn't it work in reverse? AI built into Windows could flag potentially subversives thoughts typed into Notepad or Word, as well as flag "problematic" clicks and compare it to previously profiled behavior. AI built into your GPU could build an behavioral profile based on your interactions with your hentai Sonic the Hedgehog game.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it was during the Cambridge analytics days, but I read an article that the average person is tracked by over 5000 data points. So we're already kinda f'd.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Defeatism plays into their advantage, you can always minimize the tracking. E.g. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54033555-extreme-privacy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, yeah, sorry, didn't mean to come off defeatist. I see that now.

As someone who recently ditched Alexa, blocks his smart TVs, and runs everything through PiHole and a VPN, I'm definitely...sorta trying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

If you don’t start limiting house electrical hours are you even trying