Palantir has issued a far-right, racist manifesto denouncing "dysfunctional" & "regressive" cultures & critticising "attempts to hound wealthy figures out of public life by scrutinising their behaviour."

[draljones@mastodon.social]

Palantir has issued a far-right, racist manifesto denouncing "dysfunctional" & "regressive" cultures & critticising "attempts to hound wealthy figures out of public life by scrutinising their behaviour."

It also called for "the expansion of AI weaponry."

Palantir shares fell immediately.

Palantir "has accelerated Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza", & yet the British govt has granted it access to NHS England.

Palantir shares slide after manifesto post denouncing 'regressive' cultures

Tech company faces backlash after 'cartoonishly evil' post denouncing pluralism, 'harmful' cultures and scrutiny of public officials

Middle East Eye (www.middleeasteye.net)

#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #Palantir #racism #fascism #News .

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@DrALJONES

If your behavior gets you hounded out of public life, that's your own fault, chief

[walrus@toot.wales]

@DrALJONES

Wealthy figures think they can do anything they want to do. Thiel and Karp want to reduce the population by billions. No scrutiny needed there, obviously.

[daie@toot.wales]

@DrALJONES for clarity, the 'British' government giving access to NHS England.

edited to try to sound less pedantic, not sure it worked

[draljones@mastodon.social]

@DaiE

[draljones@mastodon.social]

@violetmadder

Yes.

I figure one purpose of their deliberate publicising of their fascist eugenicist agendas is to test the water of public opinion.

Another is to induce a sense of hopelessness in the population.

And the smarter tech bros that hype AI's so-called capacity to out-think humans (actual creative thought) must know it's bs, so they're likely doing it just to compound our fear.

@Walrus

[technomagik@99finches.com]

@violetmadder @Walrus @DrALJONES I see two paths ..
In one, IP and copyright actually exists, and one day we will wake up with a judgement clarifying that AI created work is derivative work of all of it's underlying training data, and Adobe and other places that pay photographers for stock photos will watch their stock price go to the moon.
In the other path, there are only hackers and leaks, and IP becomes a fiction of the "good ol days" when money and private ownership still mattered.

We may not publicly know this change has occurred until well after it's happened, and we should also remember that many of the narratives of acceleration, collapse, and singularity have profit-seeking actors pushing a reality that does not really exist.

We can and should offer up better narratives.

[obc@mas.atmx.ca]

@Walrus @DrALJONES I think it's time we start to deal with megalomania as the mental health issue it is.

We wouldn't want to let serial killers roam the streets. Megalomania should be treated exactly the same.