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Because even if they say "no mass donestic surveillance," and "no autonomous weapons", the pentagon just has other companies for that.

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[–] aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Put on your critical thinking caps people. Every major technology company in the US is supporting the rise of fascism. All of them. Apple even provided a gold bar to Trump to show just how aligned they are. Boycott them all. The tech oligarchs are out of control.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

we boycott them by getting them off those services, but i fear the fediverse is just not ready for primetime

[–] aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is that everyone is expecting a pain free transition where it's functionally 1:1. It will never be that way. Mastodon is a decent experience which had improved quite a lot (ive been using it since 2018). There's also Bluesky if people insist on having the polished corporate experience (ie. Gamification algorithms) which will inevitably be overcome by enshitification like all other corporate services.

Something has to be done though. Switch to a custom ROM on android. Ditch apple or simply don't upgrade - repair the device... If you must use AI use Mistral or something not owned by American tech oligarchs. Get off the google apps, use Linux... There are so many ways to do something. Just do what you can feaaibly do and try to get your friends and family on board as well.

[–] Resist@lemmy.org 2 points 12 hours ago

Very good point. In order to break the entrenched powers it would have to be from the ground up approach. Dismantle everything or else we fall in the same rut

There was an interview I saw recently with Asmodei where he said that Anthropic aren't categorically against autonomous weapons, only that they didn't think they were ready, seemingly implying they would make mistakes similar to how LLMs hallucinate. A lot of the media coverage around them seemed to imply that they had a higher ethical standard than the others, and I mean... maybe? I guess it could be argued that wanting to minimize collateral damage is more ethical, but regardless, I think it's important to keep perspective when we see how they act in the coming weeks and months.