Comment by delusional
20 hours ago
> The current state of AI is a perfect mass surveillance technology.
How? Are you just going to ask the LLM about who is doing the crime? OpenAI is not an "AI company", it's an "LLM company".
20 hours ago
> The current state of AI is a perfect mass surveillance technology.
How? Are you just going to ask the LLM about who is doing the crime? OpenAI is not an "AI company", it's an "LLM company".
You ask it to do the things that human analysts already currently do with the vast amounts of text, image, and video data they collect but at an unprecedented scale. You can extract what people are talking about, identify people, weapons, or objects in images, extract addresses, license plate numbers, or other identifying references. It can probably even detect when people are using coded language that won’t trigger explicit keywords.
OpenAI is an AI company, it’s literally in the name. Even currently they use more than LLMs, they use other transformers and related technology in the field of AI.
Yes, you can do all those things, and critically, if the bottom falls out of the market, you can make that case to the US government, complete with a fear-based narrative (China!) and get bailed out by the American taxpayer.
It is even worse. The AI can build a profile of you and then feed you stuff that works on you.
Not even fear, more like a personal bubble that feeds you stuff that works on you
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There's also the option of running sentiment analysis on social media posts, easily allowing placing individuals on a left-to-right scale of political leaning.
You do what they're already doing - ask the LLM to summarise someone's entire facebook feed (including all the private stuff they can access) into a few bullet points. Whether it works reliably is a different matter.