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Death by AI

(davebarry.substack.com)
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cmsefton ◴[] No.44623179[source]
I immediately started thinking about Brazil when I read this, and a future of sprawling bureaucratic AI systems you have to somehow navigate and correct.
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1. Applejinx ◴[] No.44623772[source]
Imagine how great it will be when credit card companies and the locks on your apartment doors are connected to AI, so there are real teeth to the whims of what AI does with you.

Clearly the Mandela Effect needed nukes. Clearly.

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2. h2zizzle ◴[] No.44625617[source]
Tbf, we're managing similar craziness even without AI. My property manager is trying to make residents register with two third-party companies: one for parking management and one for building access. Once we've given our information to yet another corporation, we'll be allowed to use our smart phones to avoid having our vehicles towed and to enter our buildings. Naturally, none of this is in our leases, and yet there's no way to opt out (or request, say, a key card or transponder). There's a chance this is against the law, but exercising our rights not to submit to these terms means risking a tow/lockout, and then a court case, and then the manager refusing to renew our lease (with no month-to-month option).

There are already real teeth to the whims of what corporations do with you.