I actually hope someone is reading it. It's so sad thinking I go to all this work to be clever and no one reads it.
Of course, if I don't want anyone reading it, I sure as heck don't put it online.
Of course, if I don't want anyone reading it, I sure as heck don't put it online.
You can bet that everything sent across the Internet is stored somewhere. But read? Yeah right. People don't seems to realize that there are 6B+ people online and just how big a number 6B is. If you have a staff of 30-40K people (like the FBI or NSA) and they spend 40 hours/week doing nothing but reading Internet posts and the average person spends 4 hours/week writing Internet posts (likely a huge underestimate) and the FBI agent can read 5x as fast as the person can post, then the collective manual surveillance capacity is about 2M people. That gives a 1 in 3000 chance that a random Internet user would be surveilled (though it is decidedly not random). With more realistic numbers of maybe 5000 analysts reviewing potential threats, spending 10 hours/week on it (so they have time to actually follow up on threats, attend meetings, communicate with their boss & coworkers, etc.), and the average person spending more like 25 hours/week posting on the Internet, that's a surveillance capacity of 10K people and your chances are more like 1 in 600K.
AI will give you only what you prompt it for, and the prompts are still designed by human analysts. What's changed with it is that now the 10K people surveilled will be anyone that "fits" in a category that the government deems criminal (say being transgender, or foreign, or left-wing, or criticizing ICE) instead of actual criminals. It shifts targeting, not capacity. If you wanted to be an actual criminal and are willing to do it in creative ways that bear no resemblance to other major categories of criminality (or lets be real, political disfavor), there is no time better than the present.
FWIW, I feel you; I too try to leave internet a mildly more amusing place to be.