The scale and ease of doing it matter.

It's like the difference between a bunch of shops having security cameras that they can look at the footage from, versus having every such camera connected to a wide surveillance network with facial recognition and querying abilities. Both are technically just a bunch of cameras in the same places, but not many people would argue it's the same thing.

Nope. Its the other way around. A human could not do it, but a machine can. Or at least it can fake that it can. And the trend seems to be to put the burden on the victim to prove the wrongdoing.

The AI bros who celebrate this development probably think the benefit they will extract by committing this on others exceeds the negatives of others committing it on them.

Good luck.