Lay flat. Seriously, society is like two weeks to two months from collapsing at any moment. All anyone has to do is literally just not go to work for two weeks in mass. The power goes out, water stops running, and the grocery store goes empty. You share your resources with your neighbors. You don't even need to get out of bed to collapse the system.

I took a deep breath before writing this. Just so you know. I understand what I'm getting myself into. Again.

But no. They're not.

This is conspiracy thinking dressed up as insight.

They're not spending hundreds of billions of dollars building AI data centers because they secretly want to create a "digital prison." They're building them because they expect them to generate hundreds of billions in future profits. It's an investment in compute infrastructure, not some grand surveillance plot.

If governments or corporations want to surveil people, they already have far cheaper and more effective ways of doing it than constructing massive AI clusters.

Posts like this don't inform anyone or encourage serious discussion. They just replace evidence with paranoia and drag the quality of the platform down.

Eh.

The purpose of the AI is the surveillance...

It's all one thing.

The cameras record plates, the towers log phones. Everything records browsing data.

All that goes to a data center to be saved indefinitely.

AI constantly tries to organize it into profiles indexed via search tags.

Then if they want to look at anyone, they have a complete file on everyone ready at an instant. If they don't have someone to look at, they ask AI for a list of everyone that was in the right places at the right times. Then the AI looks at the browsing history of everyone and any redflags there or anywhere else.

It's 100% how they got Luigi, and if it comes out during the trial that the same file already exists for everyone in America, citizen or not...

The whole house of cards crashes down, because even the racists will be able to figure out that means ICE could just deport all the criminals if they wanted to. And everyone left of the racists (including the people who don't give a fuck) will be pissed for the right reasons.

I remember 5-10 years ago looking at China and thinking this sounds too crazy to be true, no way they give their citizens negative points for walking a red light, no way you can't access the internet outside of China, no way you have to work 6 days 12 hours. Lately most of the times i thought 'no way ...' it was after reading news about the US.

Nah, they already have that

Nah, when the bubble collapses there are going to be all these large vacant climate controlled warehouses to use as for profit concentration camps.

The world cup has been a huge boon to AI surveillance.

The World Cup does not create the surveillance state — but it has become one of the most efficient mechanisms for funding, deploying, legitimizing, and permanently embedding it across the globe, one tournament at a time.

why would they need AI to do this when theyve been doing this without AI for decades.

5 eyes. every phone has a camera. and mic.

I sometimes wonder if people understand that the data centers get customers to fill the space in it. Like there's 40 customers in one data center. Randomly chosen number used for ease if explaining. Could be 10 or 100 different companies renting space for the services.

*Already built and expanding

I don’t want the internet any mores. I want underwebs!!

Well... take a guess which tool they're gonna use for total surveillance. 🌝

never atribute to malice what could adequetly be explained by stupidity

People see dollarmarks and forget everything else

No, they are probably just building data centers to replace any non-physical labor with AI. And hope to be able to do that in the future for physical labor with robots: To create a permanent underclass of unemployed people and the 1% living like gods.

Not really better but that's what it looks like to me.

The only solice I have is the hope they would run it just as bad as they've ran everything else. Rife with corruption and incompetence. Would still be horrible don't get me wrong, just not as bad as it could be.