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Yeah idk about this one lol, like yes AI sucks but using it to bullet point out how surveiled we all are by big tech corps so you can email some dumb columnist that can't see it seems like a pretty innocuous and hilariously ironic use of it all things considered.
And they are spying on you. Yes you, whoever is reading this right now. They're automating spying on all of us. It is a problem.
But the AI psychosis is only confirming the suspicions that there is a spying tormentor, but not pointing out the spying tormentor. It's fueling delusions with incomplete half-accurate information getting people into heightened states of paranoia. There's just enough correct information that anything can fit into the gaps and it feels like you came up with the solution.
Emailing a columnist your AI driven paranoia is a symptom and precursor to so much worse. What happens when the wrong editor phrases something badly or dismisses the paranoia as just the ramblings of an insane person? Well maybe that editor is in cahoots with the tormentor covering for them in the mind of the paranoid, they're now a target because they're helping the tormentor.
The problem is the paranoia is justified, there is a tormentor, its the corporations that created these chatbots, the corporations that are constantly surveiling us, but that's not where the random violence will be directed.
That's fair, it'd have to be specific, Alphabet this, Meta that, Palantir and whatnot, go Flock yourself (lol).
Though
Are they with Sinclair Broadcasting or iHeart Media (formerly Clear Channel Communications)? Cause...
True, media conglomeration definitely falls under that late stage capitalism brand of mass surveillance of everyone. I guess to clarify, my "in cahoots" comment was more trying to get at that paranoid delusion that the editor is specifically trying to deceive you because the tormentor is stalking you specifically in that mustache twirling villain way and not as the byproduct of mass surveillance and mass propaganda.
Ah lol I see. Yeah I can see how that would be a problem.
The editor is specifically trying to deceive at the behest of his masters if for nothing more than protecting his own pockets, but not individually it's mass campaigns and technically a true conspiracy (conspiracy means they "breathe together" when broken into root words, it doesn't have to be "fake" they just have to be working in concert, and they are, even before mentioning COINTELPRO.)
But if The Paranoid in question went to a protest, was facial scanned, filmed on an FBI drone with a FLIR camera from miles above, and snooped on with a Stingray because he brought his phone, and they saw him on APLRs going to and fro', they might be watching him individually to be fair. The editor doesn't know that of course, he only knows his role in the conspiracy, but that doesn't mean he's not connected in the distance and helped enable it. It's all connected.