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I never want to hear any of you BIPOCs call chuds stupid again. Dr Oaken has decreed otherwise.
Darn Elon making the world unsafe for assassination of government officials
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!bardfinn thinks that the overflow NSA facility -- one single facility -- houses every single word that has ever been said on the internet and retains them for 5 years.
Every scrap of data that has ever flowed through Facebook, Reddit, Google, Twitter, BlueGoy, and all your text messages -- the government somehow has the desire and ability to collect all of it.
!fedposters !glowies !r-slurs
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Dude, they absolutely do and we've known this since Snowden blew the whistle. Text is nothing, multiple companies have scraped the entire internet to train AI.
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I won't say that the gubs doesn't do shady stuff, but I also don't go along with "I need to assume that the worst possible scenario is the actual scenario"
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Literally what are you talking about?
In 2013 the public learned that the NSA had direct access to all emails, all texts, all phone calls. Along with direct access to anything Microsoft, Apple, IBM etc. That's Snowden's primary claim.
The NSA facility in UTAH, in 2013, is a million square feet and in 2013 you could fit 1 terabyte on a single hard drive. You do the math on how much data they could fit there then and now.
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Making a copy of the entire internet is r-slurred when you can access the original servers in US/allied countries. Sure they have plenty of storage but there has to be a triage process. Zero chance they're backing up all of social media for 5 years.
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SMS? Phone calls? Come on bro use your brain.
I think you're also not realizing how cheap text data is. You could literally fit the average person's entire life time corpus on data storage the size of a pin. All of wikipedia could fit on a tiny flash drive.
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If that's true then why does Google make me pay for 10 TB of storage space and keeps telling me I'm running out???
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The facility is 1.5 million square feet, but it's not a million square feet of data storage.
The data storage portion is 100,000 square feet. Consider the size of server racks and how you have to configure them, and now you've reduced the footprint to 25,000 square feet, which is still a lot.
Even Wikipedia has an estimate that it can probably hold on the order of Exabytes of data, which is a ton, but not infinity.
They CAN do a lot of surveillance, and the probably DO a lot of surveillance, but even with all the data in the universe you just can't be omniscient. You need to consider manpower throughput and factors other than what computers do. Yes they can automate a lot of processes but at the end of the day when they generate reports, it's still glowies in Microsoft Word getting yelled at for not using the updated TPS cover sheet for their reports.
If glowies really had an omniscient precogniscant doomsday computer then the world would be much different than it is.
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This is an incorrect assumption. You're assuming the goal of the NSA is to make humans safer, instead of for example, emergent goals of all large organizations like rent-seeking and continuity.
Exabytes is a severe underestimate but regardless it's effectively infinite if you consider just text, or even text and transcribed video/audio.
Manpower? LLMs can do the same thing a million times faster and more accurately than individual agents and don't sleep. Computational requirements to analyze the data is definitely solved now, and probably has been long before public understanding of these new AI systems.
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if they control us through data, they're not doing a good job
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You sure about that bro?
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Only persons of interest
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At that point it's not surveillance, it's evidence.
Cops keep stuff in an evidence locker, why not texts?
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Can't steal and snort texts.
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that sounds like a cooler version of scratch and sniff
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I'm sure they have the desire
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