Search is being enshittified to push for AI as nextgen search. Nextgen search can map individuals behaviour, in a reactive, but also an probing manner. This forms the basis of a real time info tool, shown in google glass type devices. Tells you your opponents weaknesses and summarises facts and counterarguments and when threats are to be made, they are built to a detailed personal profile for a person who was nobody. Really tailored blaickmail to everyone, everywhere. Mapped out from the day they were born and mamma put the pics on facebook.
Every flavour of authoritarian government wants this ability and almost everyone else for that matter. Imagine going into the “diplomatic trades” either corporate, government, criminal or personal, with a google-glass partial vr data feed projecting your opponent’s every weakness. Epstein isn’t the only way to manipulate the powerful.
Search as well as forums like this and especially AI feed into the interface and can probe and map your attitudes, motivations and reactions so LLMs can become better socio-econo-political machines.
Datacentres are being built to have a lifetime, tailored LLM mapping every single human who has intereacted with a networked device in any way in a corporate, government, military, retail, personal manner and map their personality individually. You and everything about you are the LLM’s training data, as is everyone else to theirs. A group controlling this information in real time, can manipulate people in power in real time. 24/7 LLM that simulates you, based on your whole life, and others for everyone you know and eventually everyone on earth.
The holders of this information, impossibly few in number, would have the information advantage of every contest for power at any level and a blackmail machine. Having an affair? Didn’t pay your taxes? Who should we interview and what questions should we ask them as a “reporter”. What threat should we make to optimise his compliance.
The “AI” would also provide intelligent analysis expert systems real key analysis to consolidate power in retail, wholesale and manufacturing markets. It’s usefull as fuck now, with improvements it can be more powerful than nukes.
This is more consequential, but not entirely different than 1984. But as brutal as Orwell’s warning was, it was, the reality we see today. Like the book was an old instruction manual and we just perfected it to be like, 5000% more dystopian than Orwell thought.
Hence the AI/DataCentre bonanza from technofascists and others. Tada! We made it worse than our most brutal sci-fi cautionary tale, then IMPROVED UPON IT.
Shit.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Enshittification is about making money. The fact that AI is now faster and more capable of sifting through the garbage that is Google search thank human is a side effect, not a plan.
Also, your plot really only works if everyone tells AI about their every weakness, and if AI could be relied upon to answer factually. The person who relies on AI to destroy their opponent is inevitable going to run into a case where AI is completely wrong, and they are going to destroy themselves.
This might be an interesting story to tell in fiction, but I think trying to bring this about in real life would be self-sabotaging.
You could save a lot of water and anxiety with shorter showers.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Sorry, I’ve worked for hedge funds and consulting firms and software companies at a high enough level to see how they think firsthand to doubt this.
The AI boom and data centre craze makes perfect sense my scenario. The business model without this sure as hell doesn’t support these valuations, but my theory does. It’s a risk, everyone wants it. It is every countries intelligence agency’s wet dream. It a strategic asset and gets corporate power to pay for it.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I wonder how advanced China’s social credit system is now? I wonder how powerful it will become in the near future? How powerful will it’s apex be? What every authoritarian and even neoliberal government is doing with this. Wall Street, The City, Singapore, Luxembourg, Casinos…