Comment by gsk66
20 hours ago
People are acting as if this was all not possible before AI showed up. Go chk some North Korean history on what is possible without having access to the cutting edge. And as Snowden already showed us, having these dumbfuck mass survellance systems is of no use cuz if it detects 600 or 6000 ppl upto something and you have 6 ppl on staff what are you going to do about it? Ask grandma for help?
I think the objection here is simple and I am saying it as someone who likes the some of the crazier possibilities llms bestow upon us. Previously ceiling was high enough that a notably smaller number of people could build some of the stuff discussed here. Otoh, if you look at any hackaton now, in the silly submissions you will find things that could easily reach that ceiling. The population of previously small number of people increased. I think.. and I assume this is how power structures think.. that it makes things much harder to control.