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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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So you're a troll
Yeah. Says the troll.
At this point, you've shown there's nothing you can do to refute anything I've said. You have nothing constructive to add to the conversation. You can't admit you might be wrong or acknowledge when you've been corrected, so you've fallen back on ad hominem attacks instead.
Soon you will be more powerful than the both of us.
All that response is, is one ad hominem attack after another. Your money idea is also a red herring. Of course anything related to tech and political power involves money, that is sophomore level philosophy.
The normalization of license plates readers, and their history, doesn't contradict, or even have anything to do with, the increasing use of AI by police and government to process image and audio streams, two of the many things they are using it for. And it certainly doesn't contradict the worry that increased data center capacity will allow the surveillance state to expand.
So that is a red herring too. You haven't contradicted the premise of the meme at all, just used red herrings to convey ad hominem attacks.
Okay. First of all, stop throwing around logical fallacies when you clearly don't know what they mean.
I did not use ad hominem as a substitute for an argument, and I did not use a red herring to distract from the points I'm making.
I am not saying license plate readers are normalized or that they should be. They are terrible surveillance-state tools that shouldn't exist in the first place. They provide little to no benefit to the general public.
I fully admit that I called you an idiot because you were behaving like one. That insult did not replace my argument. It was accompanied by numerous points that I have presented to you multiple times, none of which you have meaningfully addressed.
The point I'm making, once again, is that AI data centers are not being built for the explicit purpose of monitoring the population. They are being built to generate profits. There is no grand conspiracy behind their construction. We are already aware that extensive surveillance exists through marketing, law enforcement, and other systems.
LLMs, AI, and data centers absolutely can and will be misused. That is not in dispute.
Do you have any evidence that contradicts my position that this is not a conspiracy?
What conspiracy? Your head is in the clouds.
You come across as a troll-shill. The meme isn't literal, like most such things. It merely points out the possibly most impactful use case as being a more important consideration. And yes, you were doing all those things in pursuit of your argument. As well as arguing confusion.
Do you have anything to add on the fact that meme is incorrect? They are not building AI data centers, the expressive purpose of spying on people?
If not, do not respond to this message. I will no longer engage with you.
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