• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    why would they need AI to do this when theyve been doing this without AI for decades.

    5 eyes. every phone has a camera. and mic.

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      4 days ago

      the data they collected from spying on you requires a space to store and hardware to process them

      These data centers provide them

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        4 days ago

        What you said, and also, data are just much bigger now. And not just a little bit bigger - orders of magnitude bigger. It’s not just that photo and video file sizes have increased… the metadata, the data about the data, have also increased in size and quantity.