Bruce Schneier points out that LLMs will bring mass spying.
- 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??