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This analogy doesn't make sense for a game designed exclusively for kids where the "totalitarian government" is the company that runs the game.

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There's no analogy. Like most technology this is dual use and can easily be repurposed for mass surveilance.

Voice recognition and saving audio streams is not new. It has basically nothing to do with this tech. It's not getting repurposed for surveillance.

> It's not getting repurposed for surveillance.

This absolutely will be used for surveillance. It's literal express purpose is surveillance and automated behavior modification.

Why? Surveillance and voice recognition has been possible for a long time. Low cost triggering on phrases without full analysis as well. There's no point using a system like this for real-time processing if you can capture the stream for batch processing later. This system even removed some transformer layers to sacrifice accuracy for lower latency.

Basically, if anyone wanted to do surveillance like this, they were always doing it with public or secret implementations. This won't massively help anyone.

I disagree. I think the fact that companies like Roblox still struggle with moderating discussions and are doing research into this area proves the point that it's not as solved a problem as you are stating it is.

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