His investment in Objection.ai points to a new model: private investigations, AI verdicts, and accountability mechanisms that operate outside democratic institutions.
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- themurphy@lemmy.mlEnglish29 days
How is the current administration not treason. Answers your initial question, I think.
- 29 days
Does it really matter if checks and balances have been wiped out? Seems like just a label.
28 daysBecause it operates within the law? It’s a binding arbitration company.
- 29 days
The state ceding the monopoly of violence to a surveillance corporation would be considered too on the face to be the plot of a cyberpunk dystopia and yet here we are living in the worlds dumbest dystopia.
- bss03@infosec.pubEnglish27 days
That’s basically the start of the Shadowrun dystopia. There were a lot of other things that “went wrong”, but when the government removed the liability from private security that has been protecting a hazardous materials transport from workers attacking it in the belief that it contained foodstuffs, it legitimized the “megacorp”: a corporation sufficiently powerful to impose their own legal system on their private real estate.
EDIT: In the previous histories the “Seretech Decision” was on 1999-10-26. Sources: 1 2 3 Looks like “6th edition” retconned the fictional history to start 2001-09-11 (Never Forget), so it’s unclear what and when the equivalent event is. Source: 4
- CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish26 days
iirc Disney already has something akin to corporate extra-territorality and and republicans were floating a wider rollout of that during Trumps last term?
- WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish29 days
So he read that Frank Herbert quote about “permitted other men with machines to enslave them” and thought it was a great idea
- SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish29 days
lol, he publicly identifies as a Sauron cosplayer
cf. $companyName
…but he’s actually more like a sweaty Zorg, as a cartoon villain.
I imagine he’s going to try and deploy this in that totally unregulated Freedom City that he and Trump are trying to launch on some federal property in CA.
- 29 days
Nah, he is going to deploy it as the de-facto arbitrator for private industry. You wave your write to sue virtually every time you sign a TOS. This will replace arbitration because that is already a parallel legal system exclusively for corporations.
I suggest building a parallel justice system for Peter Thiel. It will be powered by guillotines.
- NoForwadSlashS@piefed.socialEnglish29 days
Oh wow, The Antichrist himself spinning up his own justice system. Sounds much fairer than a jury of your peers.
- bss03@infosec.pubEnglish28 days
Putting aside the problems in the current system, let’s not call Thiel’s system a justice system until we can see some results and verify they are just, 'k?
It’ll NEVER be a “”“justice”“” system; it’ll just be a way for the Ultra-Wealthy to legitimize their oppression and handwave the consequences as a “decision by AI”. Mysteriously, oh-so-mysteriously, the verdicts will ALWAYS align with Thiel’s interests.
- GreenShimada@lemmy.worldEnglish29 days
It’s only parallel for now.
Once we contract judges and the justice system to Palantir to avoid costly things like humans passing judgement, then think of the savings!
That or we get one of those Network State Praxis type things.
- TheGreatRapsBeat@lemmy.worldEnglish28 days
I feel like this is the origin story to a script of a film Chris Pratt would definitely star in… …Oh wait…
- boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish28 days
I was just amazed that Amazon out of all companies would put out a film admitting that AI justice would be flawed.
- StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.worldEnglish28 days
It’s called Mercy. It’s actually pretty good, yeah, but it’s also pro-AI, pro-surveillance state propaganda. Solid B+, though.
- Zoot@reddthat.comEnglish28 days
Ooooh… It was certainly sounding like the opposite of that haha! Appreciate the response, thank you!!
- Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish28 days
All you gotta do is throw in some heroic 3 Percenters to make it the perfect Pratt film.
- Diurnambule@jlai.luEnglish28 days
Yeah I dunno if it was made as a joke but the timout at the end before releasing it was so classic and expected it made me chuckle. But clearly it represent well the fear of the worst uses ofs AI.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish28 days
Without reading the article, algorithms have been used in sentencing for some time, well over ten years, to detrimental effect.
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish28 days
At least with algorithms the calculation is transparent. AI is so much worse because it’s a black box
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish28 days
AI is bullshit, not that different, it’s the most hyped bullshit since idk. We are being played on this, amongst a great many other things.
Tech is a freedom ending thing don’'t get me wrong, if we don’t organize.
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish28 days
It’s different in this case specifically, because AI is completely opaque, and the calculation the court uses is not at all
- nonentity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish27 days
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
- oldwoodenship@lemmus.orgEnglish27 days
I’m fine with just euthanizing them the old fashioned way; cancerous growth can only be allowed for so long before the rest of the body fails.
History has shown time and again that if you give the lower classes nothing to live for or buy into a society then violent revolution usually follows.
- 28 days
Rather worryingly UK police forces are using Palantir to collect data on officers and civilian staff. I wonder how deep it goes.
So when the food crisis hits from the straight of Hormuz fertilizer issue, maybe let’s eat this guy first.
