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[–] 55 points 8 months ago (7 children)

You are still acting under the assumption that we will be allowed purchase our own hardware like a Raspberry Pi, or some stick of RAM to upgrade our desktop PC.

They want us on dumb terminals like in WallE, consuming the content they want us to see, and squashing the inconvenient truths they don’t like.

Does your little Blueberry cake or whatever have Microsoft SecureBoot Copilot Plus? No? It’s ILLEGAL and you can go to JAIL for having it! SURRENDER TO THE AI DRONE NOW.

The real problem is that I’m not being hyperbolic.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    “Sir, do you have any Raspberry Pi’s in the vehicle?”

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    This. And with the mumblings of autonomous AI kill bots it would be next to nothing in a decade or so for them to detect non-compliant networked devices. Everything already tries to map your network. Imagine you have a degoogled phone and some robocop detects it and arrests you because you have a suspicious device.

    The autonomous robot thing freaks me the fuck out. Imagine a cop that could access your phone and listen to your conversations, track you in real time and never get tired. If that happens it's game over. It's not happening this year, but in 5 years? With how much money they are dumping into the industry?

    They don't care if the country collapses. They're designing the next one.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    The thing about "autonomous AI" is that it isn't what the large, prominent "AI" companies are researching. The money is being dumped into LLM companies for the most part, and LLMs aren't a likely way to get fully autonomous robots.

    I'm not saying that it isn't going to happen, especially because they exist somewhat already (drones and palantir). However, when people think "dumping money into the AI industry", most are thinking of OpenAI, Anthropic and the like, especially since that is actually where the majority of money (and power) is going.

    I personally think 5 years is a stretch, but I hope the AI killbots come for me first if I'm wrong, because I wouldn't want to live on this planet anymore. Also, I'm not sure that this would be a thing in practice, since they could extract labor out of you instead of killing you with robots simply for having a non-registered network device.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    If you are internet savvy you could be impressed into cyber attacks, as is common in many countries when criminals and pirates are identified, their intelligence agencies will bail them out to work for them. ie Russia, china, maybe the us already idk.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Well they can try to do that but it won't work. I already have at least 4 Raspberry Pis, and who knows how many other computers could be lurking around.

    They'll just end up like any other form of draconian prohibition - black markets everywhere. Even my grandpa knew a bootlegger in small town USA where alcohol was illegal.

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