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Not only the telescreens, but my impression of the world in 1984 is that the surveillance depended on an army of watchers at the opposite end. Today we have models of all kinds: classification models, speech to text models, large language models, etc. Surveillance with our devices is automated, no human army of watchers needed!

1973 was not supposed to be quite as grim as 1984, but "what goes in must come out".

Zappa, "I'm the Slime" -

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pm3uDZxt8w

"You will do as you are told until the rights to you are sold . . ."

Yep. LG was reading Orwell and were like. Wow, great idea! Let's do it.

You need to up your irony. The proles were reading Orwell's 1984 and thought "hey, I shouldn't mind being spied on by (smart) TVs!" because this is the statistically average behavior of the consumers.

The thought police will be after you now for mocking them!