National fusion centers collect all kinds of data... If the US has even a remote interest in you, they know where you are at all times. They will be in all of your devices. Services. Banking. Etc.
It is just a search away... I really believe even technically minded people do not fully understand the scale and scope of it. And it gets more intrusive every day...
Even the recent Supreme Court ruling on geofencing wont go very far in limiting this form of collection.
It is all archived too. So even if today youre not on the radar, you might be in the future. With this historical view into someones life, you can find a criminal in anyone...
Yeah as soon as the early reporting came out about the use of LLMs during the operation, it kind of made sense thinking through how a target like that could be selected. The LLM is going to use variations of clustering algorithms, calculated centrality scores for all the targets, and tried to find a location where they were all in the same place at the same time (for bombing purposes)... It just so happens there are only a few schools that the Iranian elite have their children attend. And without the context of a human seeing the target and knowing it's a school, well, that's how you get this result.
At least in the Terminator, etc, there is debate about building skynet and giving it control... In reality it's just like yeah go ahead let it loose.
One of the billionaires on the All In Podcast, (which I listen to sometimes to get that kind of perspective), mentioned that one thing the U.S. and China could work on as far as regulating AI, is Know Your Customer controls. At first after one of the hosts said this I didn't think much of it but then started thinking through the second order effects later on. Why would that be such a main concern? He gave the example of dangerous people using AI to do bad things, but I think the subtext is much more complicated. At least from the ownership class point of view. Which also ties into the original idea behind OpenAI. Which is that the public should have access to the full abilities of any model equally. But the ownership class can't have this. In another post someone made a good point about licenses and this can be extended to stuff like the legal system, where at the end of the day the personal human connections decide things far more than what a model would compute the result of a case to be...
So because so much of maintaining the forms of power and order within the wealthy class has been reliant on information, and again the legal example can be used here because if you hire a lawyer, you're largely paying for information and access. Now the powers that be to compete with open information have to make the access side of the equation much more important to maintain the status quo with such a disruptive technology. And that is another layer of the need for being able to say, degrade a Chinese model if a U.S. citizen the Govt doesn't like is trying to bypass the restrictions implemented on them using models made in the U.S.
In other words, KYC is about restoring the historical aspect of needing money to have information. And there is a class warfare aspect to looking at it that way.
> I could just play someone else's record and pretend like I made it
How many "DJs" today could even find two records that they could key and beat match? Then physically mix them on the turntables with no software or sync buttons? AI is just going to make this worse...
Just go ahead and upload your companies valuable source code to our model so we can eventually replicate your business... Or I mean, uh, protect you from hackers. Yeah.
Most phones are not really off when shut down with the battery still inside. It is still responding to E911 services and other forms of tracking. I know this will try to be debunked that if the phone is off, there is no power or communication to the various radios and transmitters. But there are different power states depending on your phone and firmware. You're only really "off the grid" when the battery is removed or you have a faraday bag.
San Francisco seems, after only living here two years, to be a city kind of in a cold war with itself. I think the Broligarch Tech crowd is fighting with the progressives and in many ways the progressives are losing and do not realize it. I am not using these terms in their strict political meaning either. Much more extended to cultural aspects. I know it is also much more than just those two subcultures but they are the two most dominate.
Makes me wish I could've experienced the 1960s San Francisco or even the 90s SF. Tech and tech money just rots the soul of an area.
The powers that be do not want any code being run that hasn't been approved by a central authority. The same applies to running any code that is not authenticated to an actual person backed by some form of ID. Facial, drivers license, phone number, etc. to a central authority. The financial interests also want to force the advertising system on everyone and side loaded apps like new pipe and others threaten the monopoly.
For criminal matters, the Govt will be so far into your phone and accounts, that unless you meet your lawyer in a faraday cage, you have no real attorney client privilege. Zoom attorney calls, cell phone calls, in person meetings with devices in the room... Using cloud connected systems to draft your legal defense... All of it is monitored and a form of parallel construction is done to use the information learned against you in ways that shape the case in the Govts favor before you even get to court. Just another use of the surveillance state.
How much of the Internet is like Moltbook where you don't know the other users are bots? Does the private sector or Government control them? ... How long has it been this way??
It is just a search away... I really believe even technically minded people do not fully understand the scale and scope of it. And it gets more intrusive every day...
Even the recent Supreme Court ruling on geofencing wont go very far in limiting this form of collection.
It is all archived too. So even if today youre not on the radar, you might be in the future. With this historical view into someones life, you can find a criminal in anyone...