Just what we need, a justice system based on pre-existing biases
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Motherfucker wants to create his own Eagle Eye.
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?
The justice system was always about helping the rich
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.
I feel like this is the origin story to a script of a film Chris Pratt would definitely star in… …Oh wait…
Good fiml though, it start slowly though
What movie?
It’s called Mercy. It’s actually pretty good, yeah, but it’s also pro-AI, pro-surveillance state propaganda. Solid B+, though.
Ooooh... It was certainly sounding like the opposite of that haha! Appreciate the response, thank you!!
All you gotta do is throw in some heroic 3 Percenters to make it the perfect Pratt film.
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.
Mercy
I was just amazed that Amazon out of all companies would put out a film admitting that AI justice would be flawed.
Well, technically, the AI in the film wasn't flawed. The people feeding it variables were. It was still a pro-AI film. The whole idea fell somewhere between “AI is a powerful tool for good” and “We have to guide the AI toward better understanding.” The real villains of the film seemed to be the justice system and the actual murderer. The story was never really critical of the LLM with the killswitch.
-Just say'n...dont give Amazon a pass they don't deserve.
Even the villains know when something is bad for them.
It anthromorphise Ai
So fascists want no accountability, how rare
hes hoping the govt will give him contracts throughout the world, seeing is likely is AI companies are not faring as well as it should be. thiel dint report that the datacenters are probably costing him tons of money,.
Israel heavily depends on palantir AI to "give them targets" in palestine.
Peter Thiel should be in prison.
wouldve been if gawker wasnt sued to the ground, apparently they were reporting on things like these decades ago, he was just using the gay excuse to obfuscate his role and bankrolling hot-dog skin hogans lawsuit.
I suggest building a parallel justice system for Peter Thiel. It will be powered by guillotines.
How is this not treason
How is the current administration not treason. Answers your initial question, I think.
Does it really matter if checks and balances have been wiped out? Seems like just a label.
Because it operates within the law? It's a binding arbitration company.
JD Vance is still riding his dick.
so is sam altman, his other puppet.
Because he's... Say it with me....
RICH AND WHITE!
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.
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.
So he read that Frank Herbert quote about "permitted other men with machines to enslave them" and thought it was a great idea
lol, he publicly identifies as a Sauron cosplayer
cf. $companyName
...but he's actually more like a sweaty Zorg, as a cartoon villain.
Without reading the article, algorithms have been used in sentencing for some time, well over ten years, to detrimental effect.
At least with algorithms the calculation is transparent. AI is so much worse because it's a black box
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.
It's different in this case specifically, because AI is completely opaque, and the calculation the court uses is not at all
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.
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.
Oh wow, The Antichrist himself spinning up his own justice system. Sounds much fairer than a jury of your peers.
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.
Rather worryingly UK police forces are using Palantir to collect data on officers and civilian staff. I wonder how deep it goes.
Throw water on it
The movie “Mercy” huh
Im hoping that: at least they're trying this stuff with software that is not actually AI, so they'll fail.
Id still take them seriously though. This guy and everyone around him is insane.
Might as well have Judgeman at this point.
Humans probably should drop talking and writing to survive at this point in history.
thiel talking about justice is ironic