Former Palantir employee speaks out about the dangers of big data and surveillance for the future of democracy
https://www.westword.com/news/opinion-palantir-technologies-puts-colorado-at-center-of-future-of-ai-23822908
Former Palantir employee speaks out about the dangers of big data and surveillance for the future of democracy
https://www.westword.com/news/opinion-palantir-technologies-puts-colorado-at-center-of-future-of-ai-23822908
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A former Palantir employee documents the company’s statements threatening free speech, targeting and threatening violence at critics, and as well as their enthusiastic support for DOGE and Trump as they prepare to take over federal business and control of key functions of our democracy – claiming the company is completely abandoning the western values it was supposed to represent. What does this mean for the future application of surveillance and big data infrastructure in America? especially without AI guardrails?
I used to work as a contractor for them providing meals in their non-HQ offices. They’re a bunch of fart sniffing self important dick holes, surprising absolutely no one. I hope that company folds.
I guess not many of the folks who like Palantir’s products have ever read the Lord of the Rings.
In the books, a palantir is the all-seeing Eye of Sauron that he uses to see all and to enslave and control whoever holds it, including the wizard Saruman, who starts out good and then becomes corrupted and evil because of the palantir.
Whitney Webb does some great reporting on Palentir.
I am not a cyber security expert, but for those of you who know them, it might be a good time to buy them lunch and ask them about VPNs, encrypted communications, and local LLMs.
If any of you in this thread *are* an expert and have more to add (or correct) I’d love to hear from you.
They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching.
Peter thiel is a nzi okay, more people should be talking about this.
idk, can it be much worse? I feel like when the time comes, we will welcome our robot overlords.
Everyone here should give a listen to Behind the Bastards on Peter Thiel and his background.
The AI is a dark Palantir indeed. Mostly, it reflects you. Sometimes, it reflects on you. Occasionally it pushes you down a rabbit hole.
So you are telling me is that Palantir threatened to use violence against critics to try and scare them into silence, and declared intent to destroy democracy and overthrow the united states government.
it sounds to me like Palantir is a terrorist organization and a threat to national security.
What happened in 2016 with Cambridge Analytica was just a mild forerunner of what we can expect in the near future thanks to “persuasive AI” knowing our deepest secrets… This is far up in my list of the “creepier AI use cases” (which I recently gathered in [this](https://upwarddynamism.com/2024/08/17/dark-arts-of-ai-6-creepy-ai-use-cases-you-may-not-know-about-yet/) post.