As the title suggests, we're creeping further towards internet passports, just as I predicted...
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Tell me this isn't a stepping stone. Please. Yes "slippery slope" is considered logically fallacious, but that's my hill to die on because I have been predicting this for about 20 years, maybe more (just as I predicted many things that have come to pass -- and I regret not writing a book about it). Before anyone thinks, "paranoia", let's sum things up, starting with the general anti-privacy sentiments and lack of privacy concerns socially engineered into modern society. Points worth considering.
1. Bills holding ISPs responsible for users, requiring them to attempt to track users activity.
2. Services requiring proof of ID such as driver's license, ID card/book, phone number, etc. outside the scope of their needs/compliance.
3. Google, Facebook and others rollout "Sign-in with..." utility to bypass the need to signup (this is where I started soiling myself).
4. Google/MS/Xiaomi/Apple -- to name a few -- account required to use the phone/tablet you own, you paid for.
5. Microsoft now has built-in AI that you 'can' disable... yet you can't uninstall it (w/o hackery).
6. Now this...
I got one thing wrong: I never though AI would be involved, I always figured social-engineerings with words like child p___, terrorism, organised crime, etc. would be used to pull the wool over the public's eyes. I envisioned websites needing to register with authorities and "KYC" all users. As the thought matured, I wondered about a digital ID provided by an ISP and delivered to a mandated tracking system on websites, or possibly DNSes. Thank fk for TOR... kinda, we know it's not a silverbullet.
Now we may be able to go on using alternative libre services, but how long until they're attacked by AI spam bots? Until the quality of these platforms degrades? Remember Bitchute started out well-intentioned as a free-speech Youtube, now it's a cesspool of conspiracy theories, extremist politics and questionable material (if it's still around, lol). So they'll have us by the gonads because AI is going to destroy platforms without sufficient guards and their are LLMs designed to take other LLM outputs and make them "less detectable".
PS: Operator if you care: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/o...an-ai-agent-that-performs-tasks-autonomously/ (just another AI assistant)
Okay:
Sam Altman's World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identity | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the technology world by surprise on Thursday with the release of Operator, his company's first AI agent that can act
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Sam Altman's Worldcoin eyeball-scanning crypto project launches | TechCrunch
Worldcoin, Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning crypto startup, has started the global rollout of its services, three years after it began its work.
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Tell me this isn't a stepping stone. Please. Yes "slippery slope" is considered logically fallacious, but that's my hill to die on because I have been predicting this for about 20 years, maybe more (just as I predicted many things that have come to pass -- and I regret not writing a book about it). Before anyone thinks, "paranoia", let's sum things up, starting with the general anti-privacy sentiments and lack of privacy concerns socially engineered into modern society. Points worth considering.
1. Bills holding ISPs responsible for users, requiring them to attempt to track users activity.
2. Services requiring proof of ID such as driver's license, ID card/book, phone number, etc. outside the scope of their needs/compliance.
3. Google, Facebook and others rollout "Sign-in with..." utility to bypass the need to signup (this is where I started soiling myself).
4. Google/MS/Xiaomi/Apple -- to name a few -- account required to use the phone/tablet you own, you paid for.
5. Microsoft now has built-in AI that you 'can' disable... yet you can't uninstall it (w/o hackery).
6. Now this...
I got one thing wrong: I never though AI would be involved, I always figured social-engineerings with words like child p___, terrorism, organised crime, etc. would be used to pull the wool over the public's eyes. I envisioned websites needing to register with authorities and "KYC" all users. As the thought matured, I wondered about a digital ID provided by an ISP and delivered to a mandated tracking system on websites, or possibly DNSes. Thank fk for TOR... kinda, we know it's not a silverbullet.
Yeah, but it wasn't so in-you-face as it will be. There was accountability. It wasn't so public. And most of all, people just weren't as complicit, even with the scare tactics. This time they will be. This will make it easier.
Worst POV this and last century. Damned straight I have plenty, plenty to hide. Nothing immoral by my code, nothing terribly illegal (depending on country), most of all nothing that harms others. But I value my privacy. I value the part of my humanity capable of being self-conscious in an increasingly shameless, "self-unaware" world.
Now we may be able to go on using alternative libre services, but how long until they're attacked by AI spam bots? Until the quality of these platforms degrades? Remember Bitchute started out well-intentioned as a free-speech Youtube, now it's a cesspool of conspiracy theories, extremist politics and questionable material (if it's still around, lol). So they'll have us by the gonads because AI is going to destroy platforms without sufficient guards and their are LLMs designed to take other LLM outputs and make them "less detectable".
PS: Operator if you care: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/o...an-ai-agent-that-performs-tasks-autonomously/ (just another AI assistant)
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