this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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A Boring Dystopia

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They're down voting because I said the problem hasn't been happening at scale yet. It's an opinion I've shared before that has been met with similar reaction. We're very much still in the technology can be misused broadly, we haven't gotten to the technology is being abused at scale yet.

It doesn't fit the Lemmy hivemind worldview though which requires it to be a tangible current problem rather than yet another credible future problem.