Search is being enshittified to push for AI as nextgen search. Nextgen search can map individuals behaviour, in a reactive, but also an probing manner. This forms the basis of a real time info tool, shown in google glass type devices. Tells you your opponents weaknesses and summarises facts and counterarguments and when threats are to be made, they are built to a detailed personal profile for a person who was nobody. Really tailored blaickmail to everyone, everywhere. Mapped out from the day they were born and mamma put the pics on facebook. Every goofy thing they have ever posted anywhere. Every transaction in a bank, or a credit card, or a Tesla, Uber, Waymo, wikipedia read and more. The sum total of your, and everyone elses digital footprint.
Every flavour of authoritarian government wants this ability and almost everyone else for that matter. Imagine going into the "diplomatic trades" either corporate, government, criminal or personal, with a google-glass partial vr data feed projecting your opponent's every weakness. Epstein isn't the only way to manipulate the powerful.
Search as well as forums like this and especially AI feed into the interface and can probe and map your attitudes, motivations and reactions so LLMs can become better socio-econo-political machines.
Datacentres are being built to have a lifetime, tailored LLM mapping every single human who has intereacted with a networked device in any way in a corporate, government, military, retail, personal manner and map their personality individually. You and everything about you are the LLM's training data, as is everyone else to theirs. A group controlling this information in real time, can manipulate people in power in real time. 24/7 LLM that simulates you, based on your whole life, and others for everyone you know and eventually everyone on earth.
The holders of this information, impossibly few in number, would have the information advantage of every contest for power at any level and a blackmail machine. Having an affair? Didn't pay your taxes? Who should we interview and what questions should we ask them as a "reporter". What threat should we make to optimise his compliance. How can we Cambridge analytica our wsy to absolute power, without offering any coherent or logical platform. Just scientifically engineered by people smart enough to work at a Big Three consulting firm. Like Bannon from Bain, or like everyone from McKinsey, Blackkrock, Goldman Sachs, Musk, Thiel and all the others. At the very least, they would know what kind of hooker to blackmail the general with at the Defence conference in Dubai, France, China or the US or singapore or Switzerland or Germany or Canada and all the others. Get em drunk or drugem lightly, present the perfect hooker based on pornhub search history and voila! A general willing to compromise via blackmail. Scientifically engineered blackmail.
The "AI" would also provide intelligent analysis expert systems real key analysis to consolidate power in retail, wholesale and manufacturing markets. Private equity firm will literally pirate the corporate seas, right out of monty python. It's usefull as fuck now, with improvements it can be more powerful than nukes.
This is more consequential, but not entirely different than 1984. But as brutal as Orwell's warning was, it was, the reality we see today. Like the book was an old instruction manual and we just perfected it to be like, 5000% more dystopian than anything Orwell thought.
Hence the AI/DataCentre bonanza from technofascists and others. Tada! We made it worse than our most brutal sci-fi cautionary tale, then IMPROVED UPON IT.
Shit.
I wonder how advanced China's social credit system is now? I wonder how powerful it will become in the near future? How powerful will it's apex be? What every authoritarian and even neoliberal government is doing with this. Wall Street, The City, Singapore, Luxembourg, Casinos...