It’s not really a shock that this was the plan. When people started masking up at protests in 2020, it sent the establishment into a frenzy trying to find a way to counter it. Now they have it, and they’re going to use that tech to punish anyone who so much as posts an opinion they don’t like online. It’ll start here, with anyone even remotely critical of Is*el getting the dogs sent after them.
I think AI can do a bit better than that by ‘understanding’ context and networks of people
Sure, but its capabilities are also hyped up. What they are trying to do is blame a system and not lay the responsibility on people. And sell spy software to the world’s monsters.