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In reply to the discussion: OpenAI says fake accounts from China tried to turn Americans against data centers [View all]GiqueCee
(4,953 posts)... we are dealing with corporatists, tech bros, and oligarchs, and there isn't an honest nanoparticle among the whole fuckin' bunch of 'em. So, given what we know about these scurrilous weasels, it makes sense to assume the worst motives imaginable, and then double it. No, FOURPLE it!
People are making AI memes on their home computers. They don't need a 64-square-mile data center to do that. Even scaling AI up to gigundo dimensions, ya gotta wonder.
I would posit that the massive capacity and resource usage that will cripple surrounding communities is going to be devoted to expanding surveillance capabilities on everyone in the country, and then, ultimately, the whole fucking world, to an unimaginably astronomical degree at commensurate costs. Those costs, of course, will be passed on to those being surveilled, whether they like it or not. ICE is just the beginning of how such ruthless control will be instituted.
Total dominion over every aspect of our lives is the goal, but let's just call it "POWER" for short. In order to impose the Feudalism 2.0, which these psychopaths think they're entitled to do, they have to maintain complete control. We are little more than livestock to them; they've already demonstrated that in more ways than we can count, so complacent sheep will be put to work, and live in camps, while recalcitrant rams will be lunchmeat. Soylent Green, if you will. Younglings can Google that, while they're still allowed to Google anything. Trump wants well, actually, the architects of Project 2025 want their useful idiot to demand complete control and censorship of the Internet. That's already been reported, so it ain't like Chicken Little's imagined disaster; it's as real as a heart attack. Whether or not he's successful remains to be seen, but he'll sure as hell try.
These people are soulless monsters, and they've come too far, and invested too much, to just let it slip through their claws, so, boy, Howdy, it's gonna get ugly before it gets better.
Keep in mind that, even if you are paranoid, it doesn't mean they ain't after you.
Have a nice day.