I apologize, this is not meant for the entirety of Lemmy. Only the tankies that seemingly take up a majority of my experience.
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People have been calling 1984 prescient to the current time since at least the 1980s.
And everyone knows my personal theories of how those in power are planning to screw us over are the only valid theory. My mom said I am a very clever boy.
More seriously, I don't think you're wrong, but leaning on the authority of 1984 is bound to draw some banter.
Just giving my two cents. Before I read the book I already was making the same predictions based off what we are seeing; but after reading it, it let me know I wasn't alone in the pattern recognition. My point is that it's no new thing for people to be making this connection between AI and fascism.
Technology is great, but once the direction starts to be toward replacing human work rather than supplementing or truly enhancing it without direct interference, that's when it's easy to get taken advantage of quickly by those up top who don't have your best interest. If you don't hold a little bit of skepticism about the intentions of those forcing AI into every space even where it makes no sense, and those refusing to regulate it, it's easy to forget your own worth, and forfeit your privacy.
Anyway, I understand 1984 isn't a direct form of evidence; but it is a piece of art that pretty effectively warns of this pattern. The book is dystopian fiction, but it was written for a reason.
If you're looking for more dystopian fiction classics, I highly reccomend Fahrenheit 451 (especially if you can find it with the afterword from the author that includes an extra scene he wrote a number of years after the book came out that is between the fire chief and the main character) and Brave New World.
I feel that together with 1984, they cover a wide variety of causes and methodologies of dystopia, which is useful because no one book is going to cover everything. 451 features a society that has effectively entertained itself into the state we find it in, masses desiring and ultimately pushing for the suppression of emotionally upsetting information long before the start of the story. Brave New World features a carefully engineered society where reproduction and ultimately the upper limit of a person's lifetime ability are carefully constructed and engineered, where sex has been divorced from intimacy, and people are on strict drug regimens to regulate emotion and thought.