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AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state | Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.
Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.
We also know the government has extensive, long-standing mass surveillance capabilities — including the National Security Agency programs revealed by Edward Snowden, as well as smaller-scale strategies like social media searches and cell tower dumps. For users whose chats veer toward the wrong topics, this surveillance could lead to any number of things: a visit from child protective services or immigration agents, a lengthy investigation into their company’s “illegal DEI” rules or their nonprofit’s tax-exempt status, or embarrassing conversations leaked to a right-wing activist for public shaming. But things that would have sounded like paranoid delusions a year ago — imprisoning a student for writing an op-ed, letting an inexperienced Elon Musk fanboy modify US treasury payment systems, accidentally inviting a magazine editor to a secret groupchat for planning military airstrikes — are part of a standard news day now.
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