The duality of AI....one stops nonexistent threats another one happily puts you into danger
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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So the lesson to the rest of us is DO NOT USE SNAPCHAT especially for private messaging.
I use Signal, was pressed to do so by privacy-minded friends and have pressed other friends to adopt the client.
So long as you don't accidentally include Jeffrey Goldberg in your chat, you're okay.
Wrong lesson. All the ways to track you combined don't leave you an outlet.
Signal is fine to make you feel better.
It's a social problem that should be solved by social, not technical, means. Awareness, law, burning tires.
EDIT: for moral clarity's sake - I live in Russia, I'm not spreading awareness mostly, I'm not trying to change any law and sure as hell I'm not burning tires ; but if you live in a democratic country with courts and presumption of innocence until proven guilty yadda-yadda, you might try those
Questions for the ridiculous number of people on here who are perfectly willing to give up their right to privacy because you believe it makes schools and other places safer:
Have you read the 50+ page user agreement for your cell phone company? How about the user agreements of every app that has access to your cell phone, your PC mic or apps that have access to your files? Late model cars have microphones too, as do TV remotes. Microsoft has access to everything on your Windows PC. I'd give 100 to 1 odds that 99% of you haven't read any of those user agreements OR the UA for private chat apps you are using. Likewise are you sure any cloud storage you're using isn't scanning your documents for forbidden phrases?
Since you haven't read every word of each and every user agreement and think it keeps schools safe, you should be just fine with the fact that EVERYTHING you say or write may be available to law enforcement, even if you're talking to yourself while sitting on the toilet in your home. If you mutter that you'd like to kill someone or burn something misheard as a school building to the ground you are just fine with AI flagging it and the police knocking on your door in an hour, right? You'll also be just fine with losing your career and your job never being able to find another one, right? Right? After all, other people never know WTF someone dangerous and violent is going to do.
The number of people on here who are perfectly willing to give up all their rights and have their private communications monitored for something that is nothing more than security theater is unbelievable.
My gawd. People are missing the issue here. You described it pretty well OP.
Yes there are weirdos and they must be caught. Algorithms are getting out of hand though, targeting their wrong people and not the weirdos. There is a massive privacy issue here. Must every text that we send be accessible by the government? I don't buy the argument of "I have nothing to hide". When you are in the hot seat they will use any info they can get their hands on. make an offside joke they will use it.
Fuck this shit.
Even people who have "nothing to hide" aren't safe.
I've lost track of the number of articles about people who were wrongly accused by "AI" camera systems or flagged for arrest because their (relatively common-seeming) name matches or is close to an entirely different person who is a legitimate suspect. Some of those people have been jailed for weeks and have lost their jobs over what amounts to a clerical error.
Real US judges have ruled that click-wrapped ToSes are not legally binding, since they commonly are bypassed, and app developers use dark patterns to discourage end users from reading them.
Also, ToSes and EULAs are notoriously verbose and difficult to read. People with college level reading skills struggle with them.
So no, blaming the end user is not appropriate here.
Seems like something i would [Ctrl]+[S]
Is it legal for a service to be called private when it is programmatically shared with law enforcement?
It shouldn't be. Everyone needs to wise up to life in a police state now. Right now.
We are about 20 years too late to wake up
Welcome to post Constitution USA.
know what platform doesn't have this problem? simplex.
that's why neonazis are using it and why you should too.
I hatr how some prople on here seem to not understand that nazis and other prosecuted groups using a platform is a good sign the platform is secure.
It's "our brave resistance agents against their dirty terrorists" kind of thinking. People have aversion to perceiving Nazis as same as them by any criterion.
the same seems to be true with pedophiles too.
Or that it’s not and it’s a good way for the government to keep tabs on them à la ANOM. Me and my boys have been using PiGN. Find a bird, attach a note, hope it gets there. Anything else is a crapshoot about actually being secure.
Marvel at how AI stopped this non-existent threat, while also giving advice on the best way to kill yourself, or get the highest kill score in a mass shooting, or hack into other corporations.
Sure, this tech isn't ever going to start directly killing people it has determined are a problem, flipping off life support machines, crashing autonomous vehicles, etc.
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It's HEARTENING to Know these Platforms have the ABILITY to STOP atrocities and Almost Always choose NOT too! <3
yeah.
Its amazing how they never once stopped an actual act of violence, but someone venting about a stressful day gets a full swat deployment.
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Who the fuck still uses Snapchat?
Ditch that shit.
22YO, so yeah. That was probably peak Snapchat age for them.
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