I agree with you completely. Somebody told me about schools too, and I didn't even realize that their faces are all on the surveillance there. But, I don't know how far that goes on the ai side. It is good that there is security in the schools so it is a double edge sword thing.
Family, usually older people have no idea what is going on. They think the ai video slop is real. Also, the slop will get worse and very hard to distinguish between real ones. Then they try to add photos of you or your kid on Facebook.
Google isn't like all those other bots, lol. It is a multi trillion dollar company used as a search engine. Scanning the internet for the information. Google Search does operate on artificial intelligence.
There are way more bots now than back then, you could randomly be arguing with one somewhere. And have no idea. Users of the internet are mostly all bots now. More bots than humans.
"But I haven’t interacted with one except for the annoying merge requests on GitHub."
You probably wouldn't even know now if you did, it is getting harder to tell bot from human.
It went to shit, they have all kinds of evil groups on there like the 764 cult. I hope the government finds them all.