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With the advances in AI and telepathy fields, how do you see the future of privacy?

Context: https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2024/04/24/is-telepathy-possible-perhaps-due-to-new-technology/

Edit: maybe at some point, the police will be able to read our thoughts to know if we are innocent or guilty with a non-invasive device.

TheOubliette ,

The only surefire form of privacy is to not store information digitally in the first place, ideally not at all.

But sometimes we do have information that needs storing. And in that case privacy requires that you control the data at rest and encrypt the data at transit. All free cloud services can snoop your data if they really want to. If you value privacy, minimize your use of them.

You should assume that every social network is ride with spying, both for corporate and governmental purposes. For example, the main reason TikTok is currently getting threatened with a banning is because they have a less fed-friendly algorithm, so large masses of people are actually seeing the horrors in Gaza. If you watch the nightly news, you won't see that content. If you go to YouTube, you won't see that content. You also will barely see it on Reddit (which literally hired someone that worked at the CIA to be their community manager person lol). Do your best to dissociate your online activity from your personal identity. Use a good VPN that you pay for with cash or a proxy system like a voucher that can't be traced back to you. Use burner email accounts. Etc etc.

queermunist ,
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I'll bite.

No, they won't literally read brain waves to find out your secrets. Instead maybe they'll have an AI model trained on data from your life and then use it to simulate the things you might be thinking.

Sure, that'll lead to false convictions, but they don't give a shit lol

refalo ,

what privacy lol, it's already gone

TheBigBrother OP ,

If privacy wasn't gone, now it is LMAO..

FigMcLargeHuge ,

Yup, people have proven time and time again that they are willing to give up privacy for something simple like convenience. So as tech progresses so will the deterioration of any privacy we may have left.

Eheran ,

Telepathy?

Telepathy is the translation of thought into transmissible signals without sound that can be received and understood either by computer or others.

Ah well then this post is telepathy. What an odd "definition".

TheBigBrother OP , (edited )

How would you define telepathy then?

Canary9341 , (edited )

Telepathy is typically used for mind-to-mind, but here there is an intermediary. I guess better something like mind-reading.

TheBigBrother OP , (edited )

Some time ago someone posted about psychic staring effect and morphic resonance stuff here on Lemmy, I think the new advances on the telepathic field are related to both of these.

Edit: the not so good part it's I believe it will not pass so long when someone start to make mind-control possible.

thebardingreen ,
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That sounds like pseudoscience to me.

On the other hand, there have been rather dramatic advances in brain / computer interfaces and using machine learning to interpret electrical signals from the human brain. The good news there is that every brain is different, the machines need to learn each brain individually (a model trained to pull dream images out of my brain will pull just gibberish out of yours).

So far, the researchers would need your close cooperation in order to train a machine to understand even a little bit of what's going on in your mind. This tech is nowhere near being used for interrogation.

TheBigBrother OP ,

Did you believe MK-Ultra and Stargate projects have already developed technology related to this stuff?

thebardingreen ,
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Honestly, only if this is a roleplay community. We're getting into the realms of crackpots and conspiracy theories here.

TheBigBrother OP ,

MK-Ultra and Stargate projects isn't conspiracy theory, both projects have been declassified some time ago and they were real projects.

inb4_FoundTheVegan ,
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Yes, they were programs that were carried out.

No, they did not prove telepathy, mind control or anything of the sort.

TheBigBrother OP ,

I guess if something real came out of all that, the general public would be the last to know.

inb4_FoundTheVegan ,
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You can think that, but understand that it is a theory that the government is conspiring to keep knowledge tech the public.

Look, I can't and won't try to change your mind, seems like you have already decided it's happened. But you should understand that their is no evidence to believe in telepathy. That doesn't mean impossible, but if you choose to believe it is possible AND invented in the early 90s that is entirely a you choice. Much like choosing to believe in god.

So sure, believe whatever. Just know that without evidence it will be difficult to get serious people to take you serious.

thebardingreen , (edited )
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Yes, but nothing real came of them. The US government has a long and well recorded history of spending money on pseudoscience, even well after it's been debunked, as long as there are True Believers in the chain of command.

And the conspiracy theory community has a long and even more dramatic history of taking those mole hills and turning them into mountains (especially if grifters can sell books and / or T-shirts and / or weird copper sculptures that are supposed to "protect" you from it).

Look, I grew up with parents (and a wide community) who believed in psychic shit, crystal healing, telepathy, getting messages from the Akoshic record, what evs. It's NOT real and also believing it is NOT harmless. You're gonna find PLENTY of misinformation about what people "believe" but if you look into any of it, you're going to discover that somewhere along the line someone channeled something or someone like David Icke or Garahm Hancock or Rudolph Steiner or Drunvalo Melchizedek or Raël is involved, or someone is selling tickets to their lecture or psychic seminar.

TheBigBrother OP ,

I must admit this stuff it's a big business for some people out there..

thebardingreen ,
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this.

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