Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia

theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• who@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  More importantly, it looks like Gamers Nexus (no apostrophe) is crowdfunding the deeper investigation that they want to do.

  I’m inclined to think contributing to this journalism would be worthwhile.

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  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    While I don’t doubt there are considerable skeletons in all these parties closets, I do doubt the GN guy.

    GN chases down every possible ounce of rage bait and controversy without fail. A lot of the time it fizzles out or doesn’t stand up to any kind of real scrutiny. My fear is that they are more interested in ad revenue generating clicks than honest unbiased journalism.

    We do need a network of publicly funded journalism organizations, but being reliant on google’s tit and under the jurisdiction of US law is probably not the way to do it.

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    • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      GN’s last crowdfunded investigation into export-controlled GPU sales in China was a masterpiece of modern journalism. I have no doubt he would fail to deliver here.

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      • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        He blew the doors off of something we already knew was happening.

        The sea of coreless and ram-less consumer GPUs is all over the second hand market in the US. We all knew those chips ended up in china. We all knew nvidia was seeking profits at any cost and chinese money is the white whale of many an MBA’s focus (before getting chased out by the party for not being chinese or owned by chinese anyway..)

        It would be way more interesting to know if now after china said no more nvidia if the flow of chips is ongoing, but they probably won’t ever cover that.

        You also won’t see too much critical of Google on their channel despite it being one of the biggest threats to privacy and safety, for obvious reasons. Can’t hurt the hand that feeds I guess.

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    • kbal@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Prove_your_argument

      Maybe you could mention a few examples of times they got it wrong, what specifically they said that "didn't stand up to scrutiny", and how if at all they responded upon learning about it?

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    • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Found Linus Sebastian.

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      • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh no, someone is critical of GN! must be LTT!

        That guy is dumb but very obviously a sellout lol.

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    • who@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A lot of the time it fizzles out or doesn’t stand up to any kind of real scrutiny.

      Which times, specifically?

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Follow the advice of your own username if you have claims to make.

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Isn’t the secret service part of Trump’s admin? 🤔

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  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The sentence is constructed ambiguously. A better version of that sentence is

    Gamers Nexus was contacted by the U.S. Secret Service because of Gamer Nexus’ investigation into Nvidia’s slow corruption

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oof.

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• Sunshine@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s red team for me now.

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