Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Benjamin

There’s no opt-out, no warrant requirement, and almost no oversight. In a nation built on personal freedom, the idea that the government can identify, track, and store your data simply by pointing a phone at your face should alarm everyone citizens and non-citizens alike.

Make no mistake, it's only because activists like Paul risked arrest then continued to protest and demand a special prosecutor look into the company that this result happened. Amazing work by DxE, Dane 4 Dogs, Simple Heart, AALDP and others.

What needs to be more widely conveyed, as 404Media does, is that violation of privacy is the primary use case of Meta products at large. By egregiously representing these scenarios as outliers of otherwise handy "human-centred" tech, MSM actively participates in this predatory paradigm.