Imagine PRISM, but all intercepted communications are then fed into automatic sentiment analysis by a hierarchy of models. The first pass is done by very basic and very fast models with a high error rate, but which are specifically trained to minimize false negatives (at the expense of false positives). Anything that is flagged in that pass gets fed to some larger models that can reason about the specifics better. And so on, until at last the remaining content is fed into SOTA LLMs that can infer things from very subtle clues.
With that, full-fledged panopticon becomes technically feasible for all unencrypted comms, so long as you have enough money to handle compute costs. Which the US government most certainly does.
I expect attempts to ban encryption to intensify going forward now that it is a direct impediment to the efficiency of such system.
Yep, and that's assuming it is tuned to be reactive rather than tuned to proactively build cases against people, which is something that has been politically convenient in the past
> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him -Cardinal Richelieu
and which the Vance / Bannon / Posobiec arm of the current administration seems quite keen on, probably as a next step once they are done spending the $170B they just won to build out their partisan enforcement apparatus.
