Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

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• Mercurial@todon.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  @remington he said that AI is going to hurt women and help working class males? This is just rubbish, it’s not a shocking confession. Working class males? I think you’re referring to service production jobs and those are not increasing based on AI. So the CEO is trying to appeal to them by throwing women on a burning cross as usual. If men would stop agreeing to sacrifice women, we would be a much more powerful force of proletariat. And we don’t want AI to be in charge of us

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  • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Malcolm Ferguson wrote the title for this article not @reminington.

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  • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same ol’ divide and conquor, and they’ll fall for it. They’ll also continue to fund AI development until it works as well as the shills say it does. It’s closer that than we think, too close for comfort.

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• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’d not have put the clickbait “shocking” in the hed, but regardless, we’re running out of things to take off. Masks, gloves … they want us totally naked, and preferably underage.

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  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    maybe heads will be next…

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    • ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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      I know! Let’s take off our heads!

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I half agree with you and @Mercurial@todon.nl – the “shocking” part is mostly that he would pitch this directly in public, but the “confession” part is more of an offer or a wish

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  • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Malcolm Ferguson wrote the title for this article not @reminington.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m aware. I was referring to the initial editorial judgment by the pub.

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• Sharkticon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You know in certain animal groups when a member of the herd or whatever becomes a danger to the rest of the group, say through some kind of disease or injury or increased aggression or mental issue, that heard will eliminate the threat to the herd.

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  • Cherry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wish humans had this instinct.

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• its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Take anything Palantir says about democracy as either a dog whistle or a threat. Palantirs product is mass surveillance and criminal behavior prediction (location, whereabouts, movement patterns). That’s authoritarian, but not necessarily antidemocratic. You can still vote and be a democracy withass surveillance, don’t conflate it.

  Where the anti Democratic comes in is using that surveillance to prevent people from exercising their right to vote and manipulating their information so they vote how you want. That’s what Palantir is enabling.

  Its nuts on accurate their name is in spirit. Almost commendable.

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  • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Democracies require privacy, therefore they are in their most basic mission, anti-democratic.

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    • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s a good read, thank you for sharing. I do not believe that a lack of privacy and surveillance are a given. You can have a strong Democratic state with surveillance, if you have strong privacy guarantees and the means to enforce them.

      This is a much larger discussion, but your article and point are well taken.

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• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it

  “If I don’t stab you, someone else will. Therefore I have an obligation to stab you.” - crazed mass stabber

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• MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I like the idea that they think that educated jobs only belong to women. That’s an interesting thought.

  The sad truth is that this shit isn’t going to replace “highly educated” jobs, and that the AI gravy train will end once people start to enforce basic intellectual property enforcement. Time is ticking, and the market taking a hit now is making them scramble.

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Given that copy desks were being gutted more than a decade ago just with little things like Grammarly, it absolutely will replace knowledge jobs. It won’t be better, but it will mean more share buybacks.

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    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It doesn’t need to be good to replace jobs, as long as there are no consequences for the people making those decisions.

      I’ve lost count of how many “oops, it was AI’s fault, not my fault!” stories I’ve heard, even within highly regulated fields. Like, lawyers submitting documents with completely fake citations, and then…no real consequences. Seems to me like that should be cause for immediate disbarment, but no, apparently not.

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• Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.…

  Quick, undermine democratic values and rule of law before someone else does!

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• Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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