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Kash Patel claims AI has stopped school shootings: ‘I’m using it everywhere’
(www.the-independent.com)
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Hol up. Rewind. It's "stopped school shootings" and you are "using it everywhere."
Kash, exactly now many times have you needed to restrain yourself from shooting up a school?
Wait, didn't one of the main AI chatbots recently convince a white kid to murder a bunch of people?
Not just one shooting. It inspired many murders, suicides and murder suicides.
The recent tumbler ridge shooting in Canada was made possible by chatgpt, as was another one in Florida last year.
I can't look at this guy and not think about Tom Haverford in Parks and Rec, particularly in his imperative behaviour to impress and talk himself up rather than be competent at his job.
Idk if you watch SNL but this past Saturday they had that actor come on and play Kash in the opening skit.
How long will it take until they turn Minority Report into reality? "The AI said you were going to commit an act of terrorism/murder/robbery, so we'll jail you before you cause any harm"
But it's going to be Temu Minority Report where none of the predictions are true but they make the precrime cops feel really good and validated.
I expect nothing more from them. Although, calling it “Temu something something” is an insult to Chinese goods.
it's hard to insult the quality of the goods from Temu I've seen.
It’s even harder to praise the action of USA’s government.
I like AI, and encourage its adoption by people. However, I am 100% certain that AI hasn't prevented school shootings. In fact, I will go as far to say that the Trump administration has solely used it to harm people, schoolchildren included. We got bloodied backpacks proving that.
Kash stinks.
The 257 spike is 2021
Such a shame they didnt have enough room to print the full year along the X axis.
properly enshittified for public consumption
350 school shootings in one year??!
Bloody hell that's nearly one shooting every day
Thr USA has a huge problem with mass shootings
And every time you point it out there will always be Americans comment that it's not that bad.
Even though the USA far exceeds every other country that isn't currently an active war zone.
Counting holiday it is more.
And a baseline of two a month for nearly half a century
The scary part here is, there isn't any year with 0
I have a lion in the house and it has never been hit by a meteor therefore lions prevent meteor impacts.
It sure sounds like all of those shootings were actually stopped my tips made to the FBI but okay.
Some memorable quotes:
Speaking to Sean Hannity, Patel claimed that artificial intelligence was never used at the FBI until the second Trump administration.
Patel added: “What’s the point of collecting terabytes of data if you can’t sift through it?”
“I’ve got every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI, rebuilding our internet capabilities, our classified systems, and the ability for artificial intelligence to be in our counterterrorism program so we can get instantaneous results,” he said.
“The former FBI rejected that notion because they knew…that wasn’t their focus,” he said, referring to the implementation of A.I.
This guy must be half-blind from slapping back his entire supply of cheap bourbon because he can’t see a single red flag in any of these statements. I realize a fascist techno-dystopia has been the plan all along, but even after the last 10 years the hubris still astonishes me.
I’ve got every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI,
The fuck, man? How are they allowed to just do shit like this??
collecting terabytes of data
Also, fwiw, this is probably off by about 7 or 8 orders of magnitude.
Terabytes is a subset of Petabytes, so it's not a complete lie.
I think i have a TB of data just storing the TV show The Expanse in 4K.
When I watched Brasil way back when, I wondered how society could slip into such a nonsensical distopia .
I'm guessing this is a pretty good step in that direction.
This is such a security nightmare I can't even begin to comprehend it, bad ideas on so many levels that he's hit a glitch screen.
He really can’t be that stupid… can he?
Oh wait nevermind, don’t answer that.
It's not the case that everybody who loves AI is stupid and lazy.
But boy stupid lazy people all seem to love it...
It’s like how not all republicans are racist, but all racists are republican
the ones that arnt voting republicans but are racists, are basically republicans that arnt out loud about it. you can see many come out of the woodworks as a "republican" when they knew it was safe financially/ PR wise because of trump. especially with so many actors/celebs you thought were somewhat progressive , turns out to be pos. Sinese wasnt by accident coming out of the woodworks, eventhough he supports vets he was rather more than a coincidence right at the time of the eleciton, and him "leaving hollywood" which cause suspicion too. frankie muniz was actually surprising, he idolizes JOE ARPiao and he claimed in an interview saying he did not like his co-stars" political opinions", aka progessive/leftists opinions., yikes but it all make sense since he does "nascar"
Maybe in the past but at this point all Republicans are racist.
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No, he actual is that stupid. He’s an extremely, shockingly stupid person. Also, absolutely no ethics or morals whatsoever.
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It shows that he has outsourced his few remaining braincell's job to chatgpt.
I was personally shot once and the AI wearable I always have next to my heart stopped the bullet! Thanks AI!
Finally some good fake news!
There have been at least 24 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of April 28. Nine were on a college campus, and 15 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left at least 14 people dead and 17 other victims injured, according to CNN’s analysis of events reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety.
https://edition.cnn.com/us/school-shootings-fast-facts-dg
and this is good
Even After Two Massacres, OpenAI Still Hasn’t Stopped ChatGPT From Helping Plan School Shootings It's practically begging to help people plan mass shootings.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/two-shootings-openai-stopped
The URL of that last article you linked is SO misleading!
hes probably referring to palantir AI, and flock ? which is dumb since that doesnt stop it either.
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I suppose it's a possibility.
Here's an example of where OpenAI sort of failed to do that but maybe could have... https://globalnews.ca/news/11676795/tumbler-ridge-school-shooter-chatgpt-account-flagged-banned-openai/
Kash Patel is an idiot, though, and just saying shit with no factual basis supporting his claims.
Banchode always has the punchable look of the eager opportunist.
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Well, that's a relief. I'd rather have AI making decisions than this putz, and I hate AI.
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