Bruce Schneier points out that LLMs will bring mass spying.

· Bits and Bobs 7/7/25
  • Bruce Schneier points out that LLMs will bring mass spying.
    • Before, we had mass surveillance, but a human sifting through the collected data happened rarely.
      • That limited the oversight to things that could be done at quantitative scale, or the most egregious tails of behavior.
      • A panopticon kind of game theoretic dynamic.
    • But LLMs give qualitative insights at quantitative scale.[ge]
    • Society now has the technology to get qualitative insights at scale from that surveillance.
    • What could possibly go wrong??

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