I saw an interview with Cillian Murphy talking about how confusing it feels as an actor to inhabit a character and be focused on a project for like three months only for it to suddenly be over, and not quite being himself or the character for a few weeks until he works off that energy.
Companies know the ad market is dying and never worked well in the first place. Maybe they hope having all your data will make it better. But they know there's always a buyer of last resort willing to pay a premium for your personal information: the government.
They're just claiming it's to "protect children" or for "antiterrorism" efforts or immigration screening or whatever bullshit they think you're most likely to swallow.
"AI" is about automating surveillance and if you think "AI" makes mistakes now, wait until it's what the government relies on when heavily armed masked men raid your home in the middle of the night.
You don't need to. That's the point. The regime will criminalize behavior you think is normal in a heartbeat. They're collecting surveillance on you one way or another. All it takes is one "mistake" on your part or the "AI" sifting through your data.
To exist online in 10 years, you're going to have to give a random company a face scan and photo ID and they're going to give that and everything you post to the government to spy on you for being queer, left-wing, "a criminal," or whatever. None of your data or communications will be private. The government and corporations will go through all of it.
If you don't want that to happen, you should raise a stink about "age verification" right now because that's what they're actually building.
"Is there a technology the left is excited about?!"
Yeah, actually. There's been some interesting developments in nuclear power in terms of safety and efficiency. Fusion seems to be creeping closer. We're getting better at figuring out superconducting materials and metamaterials in general. Solar and wind are improving by leaps and bounds. There's a lot of potential to upend our stagnant fossil fuel economy and none of it depends on chatbots.
"Buy all the SSDs, RAM, and Nvidia chips in the world and hook a nuclear power plant up to the datacenter to run a chatbot" is the kind of kludgeware shit techies used to be ashamed of.
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