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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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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

apparently hes also behind CLAVICULAR suddenly being in the media. everyone said his rise in streaming/spotlight felt so unnatural, now we know why. thiel was funding him to be this way.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 hours ago

So when the food crisis hits from the straight of Hormuz fertilizer issue, maybe let's eat this guy first.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.org 4 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 7 points 17 hours ago

Just what we need, a justice system based on pre-existing biases

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago
[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Motherfucker wants to create his own Eagle Eye.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

The justice system was always about helping the rich

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] TheGreatRapsBeat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like this is the origin story to a script of a film Chris Pratt would definitely star in… …Oh wait…

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good fiml though, it start slowly though

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

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.com 3 points 17 hours ago

Ooooh... It was certainly sounding like the opposite of that haha! Appreciate the response, thank you!!

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

All you gotta do is throw in some heroic 3 Percenters to make it the perfect Pratt film.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 points 17 hours ago
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I was just amazed that Amazon out of all companies would put out a film admitting that AI justice would be flawed.

[–] TheGreatRapsBeat@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Even the villains know when something is bad for them.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 points 21 hours ago

It anthromorphise Ai

[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

So fascists want no accountability, how rare

[–] db2@lemmy.world 129 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 98 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Heikki2@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

JD Vance is still riding his dick.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

so is sam altman, his other puppet.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Because it operates within the law? It's a binding arbitration company.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Because he's... Say it with me....

RICH AND WHITE!

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.pub 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Peter Thiel should be in prison.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] horse@feddit.org 35 points 1 day ago

I suggest building a parallel justice system for Peter Thiel. It will be powered by guillotines.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.works 17 points 1 day ago

lol, he publicly identifies as a Sauron cosplayer

cf. $companyName

...but he's actually more like a sweaty Zorg, as a cartoon villain.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago

Oh wow, The Antichrist himself spinning up his own justice system. Sounds much fairer than a jury of your peers.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Without reading the article, algorithms have been used in sentencing for some time, well over ten years, to detrimental effect.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At least with algorithms the calculation is transparent. AI is so much worse because it's a black box

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[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

"Run the government like a business."

🤡

Rather worryingly UK police forces are using Palantir to collect data on officers and civilian staff. I wonder how deep it goes.

[–] xSikes@feddit.online 8 points 1 day ago

Throw water on it

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The movie “Mercy” huh

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