{"id":22025,"date":"2025-10-05T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22025"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:04:16","slug":"surveillance-states-autonomous-cars-and-doomposting-about-ai-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22025","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance states, autonomous cars, and doomposting about AI as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"
They want surveillance states to be the new normal<\/p>\n

Source: Reuters<\/p>\n

ICE plans to hire 30 contractors whose only job would be sifting through social media to find posts that could warrant deportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They\u2019re looking for private vendors that will operate a multi-year surveillance program to scour Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other platforms, using posts and profiles as leads on enforcement raids.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is still in its nascent stage, but draft planning documents show that they want round-the-clock surveillance, constant case processing on tight deadlines and they wish to supply the agency with top-of-the-line surveillance software. There are plans to brainstorm how to incorporate AI into this process as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This post is about ICE, but ICE is a microcosm of what\u2019s happening around the world. Our data is already being sold to the highest bidder, but Meta\u2019s announcement some days ago about how they will use personal chats with their AI come December, and you can\u2019t opt out, is another move in the trend of companies not caring for your privacy, and encroaching further and further upon your digital personal space, compromising your security.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read: iRobot danger, Meta endangering privacy, and Nintendo’s Lego Game Boy<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a problem that\u2019ll disappear anytime soon. Maybe it\u2019s already too late to stop it in its tracks, but maybe we can stop it from getting any worse. Don\u2019t conform to the new normal. Fight against it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ghost cities, ghost vehicles<\/p>\n

Source: Reuters<\/p>\n

In the Chinese city of Ordos, companies that make self-driving cars are having a field day testing out their creations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ordos never had a high population after the 2012 price crash, which saw more than 70% of properties being built left unfinished. Because of the region\u2019s wealth of coal, there is a high demand for cargo logistics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So now, over a dozen autonomous vehicle companies have moved in, offering their services in transportation while also testing out their autonomous crafts.<\/p>\n

While this is the perfect environment to test out autonomous crafts safely, it doesn\u2019t give any data on how well these vehicles perform in a densely populated urban environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On one hand, I\u2019m glad they\u2019re able to test these things safely, but I wouldn\u2019t want these trucks to be on the same road as me if they haven\u2019t been tested in a natural city.<\/p>\n

Corporations and AI: a match made in cyber-heaven<\/p>\n

Source: Google Gemini<\/p>\n

AI seems to have found a permanent place in one area: corporations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A study published in the journal Patterns found that in corporate and government bodies, as well as in corporate news publications, AI tools were regularly used to draft everything, from job postings to press releases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even the United Nations has been regularly drafting its content with AI over the past couple of years. The study found that the percentage of plausibly AI-generated text had climbed from 3.1% at the beginning of 2023 to 10.1% by the year\u2019s third quarter, and peaked around 13.7% a year later.<\/p>\n

The researchers found on LinkedIn that around 6-10% of the job postings they sampled had varying degrees of AI writing in it. They noted that smaller firms had more instances of AI usage than larger corporations.<\/p>\n

While they say that AI usage has plateaued (at least for press releases) around 24.3% since December 2023, the fact remains that AI is rapidly filling up content in the digital space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There will come a time when there simply won\u2019t be anything left that isn\u2019t AI-generated in some way. And it\u2019s not going to happen in some far-off future; it\u2019s happening now.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They want surveillance states to be the new normal Source: Reuters ICE plans to hire 30 contractors whose only job would be sifting through social media to find posts that could warrant deportation.\u00a0 They\u2019re looking for private vendors that will operate a multi-year surveillance program to scour Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other platforms, using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}