Comment on Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’
theneverfox@pawb.social 1 week ago
Ok, I’ve had it.
Every county seems to be actively trying to create their own distopia this year
From now on, no sci-fi until you can pass a reading comprehension test.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 week ago
I think Argentina was already there, but I get your point.
The problem is politicians tend to live in bubbles where they are protected from the consequences of their own actions and often are old and not particularly tech-savvy. So they get pulled in by things like AI and blockchain because they sound like having your cake and eating it.
The AI techbros go to them and promise them the world, they make it sound so great that the philosophers stone would be less attractive. The eagerly lap all this nonsense up and then we get announcements about pre-crime or something.
theneverfox@pawb.social 1 week ago
Oh, I was talking about the tech-bros. They’re the ones who shouldn’t have access to sci-fi, or at least not the cautionary tales
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
1984 was never meant to be a guide damn it!
echodot@feddit.uk 1 week ago
To be honest I’m pretty certain that none of them have actually read the 1984 they strike me is being particularly book orientated.