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763 points easton | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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jryio ◴[21 Oct 25 17:25 UTC] No.45658607[source]▶
If you think this is useful... remember technology like this would make totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth.

If you thought that ads are creepy, Atlas is a root level keylogger service. Why would you want an AI company scraping and recording all of your browser interactions.

Yes Google already does this via Chrome. It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending, location and income information in order to target then sell you advertisements...

Quite another thing to build a model of your cognition by recording you from a company that is trying to build general intelligence - this is a training data and cognition exfiltration play.

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mk89 ◴[21 Oct 25 19:31 UTC] No.45660548[source]▶
Man, literally everything we have been doing since the 90's makes totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth.

Do you understand we're willingly sharing our name, surname, relationships, friends, where we work, what we do, how much we make (not maybe precisely, but with some social engineering you can get that), in some cases even private intimate videos, pics of our families, etc. Everything.

There is nothing else they need anymore. If they want to, they get you. Any time. And yet, things work relatively well.

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1. kossTKR ◴[21 Oct 25 20:24 UTC] No.45661218[source]▶
Things work "relatively well" for billionaires and the status quo though.

You probably have no idea how much working class anger, how many unknown groups and "screams from the abyss" are being targeted, removed, censored, deranked before they gain any critical mass in this bizarre cybernetic web that's been created. I sure don't.

But sometimes you feel it on a gut level, flooded in a torrent of PR and entertainment, mind controlling algorithms and mainstream media with an increasingly tiny overton window disregarding the circus of culture wars farming attention and steering political anger for economic political gains - through a media landscape where all local news, actual working class papers representing real people, and diversity of thought has been replaced by thoughts™ approved by one of the few giga corporations working for a microscopic plutocracy.

It's over 100 years since Edward Bernays et al. invented modern PR, then came astroturfing, and now it's all so weird and colossal that no talks about what was seemingly obvious a century ago.