jsr on Nostr: We're about to see a new surveillance trap: "Plaid for AI" This will look like slick ...

We're about to see a new surveillance trap: "Plaid for AI"

This will look like slick middleware that seamlessly hooks CRMs to Claude, gmail to GPT-5 etc, etc.

UX will be great & founders well-meaning.

And then the VCs will ask: what else can we do with this sick tokenflow data?

And so a new generation of founders will rediscover fire: the data they route is more valuable than fees they get for routing it.

Spoiler: Your ISP discovered this. And now sells your data. Financial services companies discovered this. And now sell your data.

AI middleware companies are next.

Because if they're routing data to inference providers, they get seeing who is querying what, when & how. Unprecedented window into thought process, tool calls, proprietary workflows.

Already a scarce, valuable resource mostly available to the big inference providers (key part of their moat!). Only going to be more so.

But it also smells like commercial insight, business & market intelligence for days...

So, you build in surveillance and monetization becomes your big defensible margin.

And then one day the warrants arrive... Or maybe you've been clever and, despite some founder discomfort that the VCs pushed through, you just quietly built a for-government dashboard during your Series C...