Surveillance as a Service

The scariest thing about AI isn’t fake Drake songs. It’s that it makes surveillance scalable.

Before, spying took effort. Governments hired analysts. Companies sifted logs. Someone had to actually look at the data. That friction mattered.

Now it’s automated. Voice-to-text. Pattern detection. “Suspicious behavior.” Predictive policing. All of it presented as neutral tooling.

They don’t need to watch you anymore. The system does it. Faster and cheaper. And once the infrastructure exists, the reasons follow. Fraud prevention. Moderation. Security.

This isn’t about abuse. It’s about usefulness. It scales. It saves money. It fits existing incentives.

That’s usually how privacy disappears. Not through bans or announcements. It just stops being worth protecting.