Yeah I think a lot about the guy I knew that took a job at palantir. When asked about working on questionable stuff, he just shrugged. He was always nice to people he knew personally, so far as I can tell, but bigger picture stuff didn’t seem to matter to him
Comment on Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 3 weeks agoThey have two types of people:
- Software Engineers and Computer Scientists that don't care who gets hurt as long as they get to work on their interesting problem. I call them the Wernher von Braun club.
- The ones that are also prospective customers
The Venn Diagram might be close to a circle.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
Malgas@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That's the thing, Software Engineers have choices.
Yes, all big companies will do some dubious things.
But then you have big tech that does all those dubious things and is also breaking democratic institutions everywhere with a sledgehammer.
And then you have Palentir, which are literally Hollywood movie villains.
At this point they are light years of their livelihood depending on it. There's no way they don't notice where the bombs are falling, they had plenty of time to look around and have decided they don't care.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
These are all Eastern European software developers, per the article.
Samdell@lemmy.eco.br 3 weeks ago
Can’t believe this is the first time I hear the expression “Wernher von Braun club”, fantastic.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
There is a 3rd type: people desperate for work / experience who are simply taking the best paying job they can find. It is actually the most common type of working in the US.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
LMAO. Except even dumber, they’re the von Brauns of the “fake illegal nude” world