Billionaire Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison said he expects AI surveillance systems to reach a point where all citizens are under constant watch.
  • e$tGyr#J2pqM8v@feddit.nl
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    11 days ago

    Maybe billionaires should be filmed and streamed continuously, since their behavior has such a big impact on the world. If they don’t like it maybe we shouldn’t allow them to control such incredible assets. I’m sure billionaires have nothing sketchy to hide, right? What we will see is probably how they are hard working people who are not at all detached from normal folks. Right?

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Well, Larry obviously.

      Coincidentally, Larry will not be under surveillance.

    • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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      12 days ago

      Bending over, touching your toes, and not complaining when this guy comes out from hiding in the bushes and sticks something up ur but

  • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    So the Panopticon. The hypothetical prison that even people in the 1800s thought would be a human rights violation to build because it was such an extreme form of psychological torture.

    • NoMadMan@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      When envisioning the rising of such surveillance system turning our prison into a planet, I had always hoped that the “hackers” in the world would protect us from such.

    • TheFriar@lemm.ee
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      12 days ago

      Well, we already experience that psychological torture. After 2002/2003, and then especially after 2012, this concept has already burdened our everyday behavior. Browsing behavior, phone calls, texts, emails…every single way we communicate, even face to face meetings with phones in our pockets are open to surveillance. And it’s been shown that it’s been used. Over a decade ago, thanks to Snowden. Now? Things have surely gotten worse and I would bet the farm on behavior very much having changed due these facts.

      • sentientity@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 days ago

        And not for the better. I think people are actually much less kind to each other when they are aware of being observed. Or worse, deliberately performing for content.

          • sentientity@lemm.eeEnglish
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            11 days ago

            Clarissa-Jan Lim wrote a great article which called it ‘Panopticontent’. That phrase lives in my head forever now.

  • another_kbin_addict@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Ah, cofounder of Oracle (that terrible software you hate using) if you, like me, were wondering who the fuck this cunt is.

    Eat my shit Larry.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    “We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”

    And if we entertained the idea that this was true and the core focus of this idea (it’s not) what do we think the chances are that the “appropriate person” will be one of two things:

    1. Another cop

    2. A subscription service digital surveillance company with that cop as a client that they report back to for “internal investigation”, as long as the bill is paid.

    • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Even if his vision for the future worked perfectly (which it won’t) and wasn’t abused (which it will be, rampantly and immediately), it’s still a complete dystopian nightmare lol

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    My best behavior is to be on Larry Ellison’s front yard with pitchforks burning torches and guillotines.

  • sweetpotato@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    Only the fact that he is able to say shit like that out loud is a sign of a rotting society. People are ok with being their slaves

  • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    12 days ago

    Does he realize that we’ve had AI surveillance systems for years?

    Just look at my record of being locked out of my own bank account.

    False positives and nothing working became the norm like 10 years ago thanks to putting these dumb AI systems in charge of IPS and “anti-fraud” systems. This is what happens when you put AI in charge of surveillance. Its like that scene from idiocracy when the computer gives him the name “Not Sure” because its a computer.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Emboldened oligarch in a plutocracy.

    But also kleptocracy and really a kakistocracy disguised outwardly as an aristocracy or neo-monarchy as Raskin said.

    Outside of just saying “America” or “Capitalism” How do we combine all of this into one satisfying, effective term?