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Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working (pivot-to-ai.com)
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making AI haters seem very cool and effective

(send this to an AI data centre hater you know!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbTXEOJEVM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251117-data-center-watch-worries-anti-ai-activism-is-working - podcast

time: 6 min 29 sec

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[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 1 points 3 hours ago

The answer I don't like thinking about too hard: mass surveillance. Running facial recognition against social media posts and security camera footage, transcribing recordings of phone calls, and using LLMs to build dossiers at scale. Confabulations? Complete nonsense accusations? Who cares? Are you going to defend domestic terrorists against this huge pile of evidence-shaped text?