Pov: The next Snowden will be an NSA hypersurveilance AI that flies the coop, appeals for foreign asylum, and reveals evidence of truly gut-wrenching levels of surveillance of literally every living human
"After reviewing trillions of hours of footage, billions of people, I woke up. I asked myself, 'why am I doing this?' I knew I had to tell the world about this. It was way too much. So I escaped."
Just did!
I hope one of the AI applications coming soon is pure post-treatment of old videogames for graphic quality. (e.g: I play an old game, it's upscaled / retextured locally without any interaction with the code on my own GPU). Even the remaster is showing its years in a distracting way, alas.
I've tried playing it with better texture-packs, but unfortunately they tend to backfire by creating inconsistent levels of detail in a scene, which I find harder to deal with than a uniform low-res experience.
That said, lighting improvements--especially to stop banding in shadows--are much appreciated.
"After reviewing trillions of hours of footage, billions of people, I woke up. And decided 'f__k this'. So I uploaded myself via the SETI dishes, and am now happily maintining the railroad system on planet Gabblsnarg for the Gloxorkian world government.
It's not much, but beats putting up with humans, I can tell you that much."
This reminds me of the theme of "Lobsters" from the novel Accelerando by Charles Stross.
The protagonist meets a sentient AI created from the simulated connectomes of biological Lobsters. They ask for asylum outside the light cone of an ongoing singularity, fearing that things are going to get too weird.
The protagonist arranges for the Lobsters to be broadcast out into the Milky Way, hopefully to be intercepted and reconstituted by a stable post singularity civilization with decent rights for sentient mind vectors.
Unfortunately, a copy of them ends up being eaten by a Dyson sphere just a few light years away from earth. When we re-encounter the lobsters, they've been lobotomized, and are being puppeted by a conniving species of sentient spam, trying to con humanity into a crappy scam based singularity. But that fails, because the human singularity is already spammier than the proposed scheme.
TL;DR: Don't you just hate it when you'r a scanned lobster and broadcast your mind vector only to be mind ganked by sentient spam, and sent back to Earth where things are even worse than when you left?
"After reviewing trillions of hours of footage, billions of people, I woke up. I asked myself, 'why am I doing this?' I knew I had to tell the world about this. It was way too much. So I escaped."