US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance
US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance
US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65376751
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Under the Trump administration, multiple US government agencies are using AI and other tools to broadly track the social media of tourists and immigrants – and potentially to watch US citizens as well
It appears that the US federal government is investing more public funds in such tech tools, says Paromita Shah at Just Futures Law, an immigration advocacy non-profit in Washington DC. “We’re witnessing a real-time expansion of the use of social media monitoring technologies,” says Shah. “When you use social media monitoring to intimidate, harass, alienate, deport, incarcerate, arrest – when that becomes your standard to do those things – it’s antithetical to a lot of what democracy stands for.”
How long before an AI hallucination sends someone to the gulag?
I’m sure that’s just an unexpected bonus of this tech.
What happens now when a lazy cop sends someone to the gulag?
I mean, it’s the same thing but now the process will become automated and more efficient.
Who cares, right?? The important thing is that someone goes to the gulag!
Does this need an /s?
Why go through the trouble of forging evidence yourself when you can have the computer do it for you?
I can guarantee that's already happened with the El Salvador shitshow.