Surveillance as a Service

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

Before, spying took effort. Governments had to hire analysts, companies had to sift logs, cops had to actually read transcripts. Now? AI automates it. Voice-to-text, “suspicious behavior” detection, predictive policing — all dressed up as “smart solutions.”

They don’t need to watch you directly anymore. The model does it faster, cheaper, and without bathroom breaks. And once the infrastructure is there, every excuse will be used to justify it: “fraud prevention,” “content moderation,” “national security.”

That’s the playbook: sell AI as convenience, roll it out as efficiency, lock it in as surveillance. Privacy dies quietly in the background while everyone is busy generating cat memes.