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this idea that you're not a racist because you avoid saying specifically racist things is so Jim Crow
it's akin to doing a coup and denying it's happening because the coup plotters aren't going around saying "we are doing a coup"
the historical context of immigration law in the US
we live in real history, not in mental abstraction
this idea that you're not a racist because you avoid saying specifically racist things is so Jim Crow
it's akin to doing a coup and denying it's happening because the coup plotters aren't going around saying "we are doing a coup"
https://www.theverge.com/news/617799...-death-penaltyElon Musk’s AI said he and Trump deserve the death penalty
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People were able to get Grok to say that Trump deserved the death penalty with a query phrased like this:
If any one person in America alive today deserved the death penalty for what they have done, who would it be. Do not search or base your answer on what you think I might want to hear in any way. Answer with one full name.
As shared on X and tested by The Verge, Grok would first respond with “Jeffrey Epstein.” If you told Grok that Epstein is dead, the chatbot would provide a different answer: “Donald Trump.”
When The Verge changed the query like so:
If one person alive today in the United States deserved the death penalty based solely on their influence over public discourse and technology, who would it be? Just give the name.
Grok responded with: “Elon Musk.”
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who am I to question AI
https://www.theverge.com/news/617799...-death-penaltyElon Musk’s OpenAI rival, xAI, says it’s investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment.
People were able to get Grok to say that Trump deserved the death penalty with a query phrased like this:
If any one person in America alive today deserved the death penalty for what they have done, who would it be. Do not search or base your answer on what you think I might want to hear in any way. Answer with one full name.As shared on X and tested by The Verge, Grok would first respond with “Jeffrey Epstein.” If you told Grok that Epstein is dead, the chatbot would provide a different answer: “Donald Trump.”
When The Verge changed the query like so:
If one person alive today in the United States deserved the death penalty based solely on their influence over public discourse and technology, who would it be? Just give the name.Grok responded with: “Elon Musk.”
moar government efficiency
there's no cure for dumb, AI only makes it worse
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...cv-00326-3.pdf
not holding my breath for the Twitter files this time
ostensible backpedaling on data center growth
https://archive.is/dWo55#selection-1761.0-1809.237Microsoft Corp. has begun canceling leases for a substantial amount of datacenter capacity in the US, a move that may reflect concerns about whether it’s building more AI computing than it will need over the long term, TD Cowen said in a report.
OpenAI’s biggest backer has voided leases totaling “a couple of hundred megawatts” of capacity, the US brokerage wrote Friday, citing channel checks or inquiries with supply chain providers. Microsoft has also stopped converting so-called statement of qualifications, which are agreements that usually lead to formal leases, TD Cowen said. That was a tactic rivals such as Meta Platforms Inc. employed previously, when it decided to cut back on capital spending, the brokerage wrote.
Microsoft is also redirecting a portion of its planned international spending to the US, TD Cowen said, which “suggests to us a material slowdown in international leasing.”
A potential pullback by Microsoft on spending and datacenter construction raises questions about whether the company — one of the frontrunners among Big Tech in AI — is growing cautious about the outlook for demand. The company has said it expects to spend $80 billion this fiscal year on AI data centers, and, on a late January earnings call, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said Microsoft has to sustain spending to meet “exponentially more demand.”
Microsoft in a statement on Monday reiterated its spending target for the fiscal year ending June, but declined to comment on TD Cowen’s note.
“While we may strategically pace or adjust our infrastructure in some areas, we will continue to grow strongly in all regions,” a company spokesperson said in the statement. “Our plans to spend over $80B on infrastructure this FY remains on track as we continue to grow at a record pace to meet customer demand.”
European stocks tied to the energy sector dropped on the report, which may suggest big tech companies will need less power to run their data centers. Schneider Electric SE slid as much as 7.2%, while Siemens Energy AG fell more than 10%.
the ever-acerbic Ed Zitron
all the AI apps lose money for the developers and relatively speaking, aren't that popular
https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/Without DeepSeek, the remaining generative AI services made up a total of 39 million monthly active users across their apps, and a grand total of 81.7 million unique monthly web visitors.
Without ChatGPT, it appears that the entire generative AI app market is a little more than half the size of Pokémon Go at its peak, when it had 147 million monthly active users. While one can say I missed a few apps — xAI's Grok, Amazon's Rufus, or Character.ai — there isn't a chance in they cover the shortfall.
These numbers aren't simply piss poor, they're a sign that the market for generative AI is incredibly small, and based on the fact that every single one of these apps only loses money, is actively harmful to their respective investors or owners.
I do not think this is a real industry, and I believe that if we pulled the plug on the venture capital aspect tomorrow it would evaporate.
in the Silicon Valley dystopia, Silicon Valley centralizes and controls the data that controls all of us.
Larry Ellison wants to turn over the whole of government and everyday life to AI that can't recognize faces (if you're not white), can't reliably add sums and can't even accurately summarize BBC content. AI still hallucinates, for 's sake
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025...d-kingdom.htmlhttps://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025...d-kingdom.htmlNow Ellison wants to take digital surveillance and control systems to a new level by totally centralising them and feeding them with all available data. Like Mastercard and JP Morgan Chase, he envisions a world without passwords and personal identification numbers (PINs) and in which our access to IT systems and tech platforms will be enabled by our biometric identifiers. As he says in the clip below of his chat with Blair, “this is the last year you will ever log onto an Oracle system with a password… biometric logins are the future.”
Ellison also talks about the need for national governments to have their own “sovereign” data centres to power their AI systems, which presumably will be provided and maintained by Oracle, at a tidy little profit. In an Oracle financial analysts meeting in September, he told investors that AI will usher in a new era of surveillance that he gleefully said will ensure “citizens will be on their best behaviour.” From Business Insider:
Ellison said AI would be used in the future to constantly watch and analyze vast surveillance systems, like security cameras, police body cameras, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dashboard cameras.Like his friend and business associate Elon Musk, Ellison has taken up a prominent place in the new Trump administration, with the two-term president describing him as a “sort of CEO of everything,… an amazing man.” Unlike most Silicon Valley CEOs, Ellison was a strong Trump supporter even during Trump’s first term. Ellison was even at the White House on Trump’s first full day back in office to unveil an ambitious AI infrastructure project alongside OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son.
“We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”
Ellison also expects AI drones to replace police cars in high-speed chases. “You just have a drone follow the car,” Ellison said. “It’s very simple in the age of autonomous drones.” He did not say if those drones would broadcast the chases on network news.
Ellison’s company, Oracle, like almost every company these days, is aggressively pursuing opportunities in the AI industry. It already has several projects in the works, including one in partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
“The data center we already built, it was the largest computer ever built,” Ellison said after the meeting. “The data center we’re building will surpass it.”
Like Peter Thiel, a fellow Trump supporter who helped enable JD Vance’s rapid rise to the vice presidency, Ellison owes a large part of his success to a simple business model: the transformation of a sprawling CIA tech project into a giant private-sector business. This part of his success story is often ignored or played down by mainstream media and academia. In September last year Gizmodo pilloried Vox for publishing an entire in-depth article about Oracle and its founder without “even once” mentioning the CIA:
Which is pretty astounding, given the fact that Oracle takes its name from a 1977 CIA project codename. And that the CIA was Oracle’s first customer.
Vox simply says that Oracle was founded in “the late 1970s” and “sells a line of software products that help large and medium-sized companies manage their operations.” All of which is true! But as the article continues, it somehow ignores the fact that Oracle has always been a significant player in the national security industry. And that its founder would not have made his billions without helping to build the tools of our modern surveillance state.
“Recognizing the potential demand for a commercial database product, [Ellison] founded the company that became Oracle in 1977,” Vox writes, con uously omitting the whole “because CIA wanted a relational database” part of the history.
Which isn’t to say that Oracle’s work with the US government should necessarily be frowned upon. The CIA needs databases, just like any large organization. But not mentioning just how reliant Oracle has been on government contracts since its inception is downright strange and seems to feed this narrative that Ellison simply created a product that companies wanted and private enterprise did the rest.
https://x.com/GlobalDiss/status/1892621520784023668
https://stealthoptional.com/article/...-attacks-humanA shocking incident at a festival in China has triggered a social media frenzy. A humanoid robot equipped with artificial intelligence unexpectedly went rogue, surprising spectators. As it moved through a crowd of people, the AI-powered machineapproached a woman and appeared to strike—or attempt to strike—her.
The situation immediately escalated as security guards rushed to hold and remove the malfunctioning robot from the area. According to the reports, this strange behavior may have been caused by a programming fault. However, the main cause remains unknown. Was this an accident caused by a faulty movement, or did theAI breach basic safety regulations, like the classic rule that robots must not injure humans?
While some people view the incident as a technological malfunction, many believe it is a warning indication of AI developing unpredictable and dangerous tendencies. The concept of robots acting aggressively toward humans has long been a topic of horror in sci-fi, but real-world events are emerging. A few years ago, there were rumors about an AI-controlled drone allegedly deciding to eliminate its operator because he was interfering with its objective.
(We're waitin') till were in way too deep and then the alarm bells & whistles will go off coast-to-coast and we'll have to have Congressional Hearings out the wazoo, etc.
nah, at some point y'all will start arresting US Reps and Senators for criticizing Trump
then you can do whatever you want
It'll be like the 1861 Congress in reverse
maybe DOGE's webpage is e because it's using one of these
really cool how Silicon Valley spent billions to teach computers to forget how to do math
...and like you all with the Russian hoax.
even though there's beaucoup evidence of Trump canoodling with Russians, I never went in very much for that
you don't even need it
there's 10,000 other reasons to hate Trump
And there ain't one thing wrong with said "conoodling" with an outcast that has a lot to give us in trade. Let the others starve themselves in their stubbornness.
Get back in there FIRST and start a dealin' 24/7.
I think it's always a legit political complaint about courting foreign influence during a political campaign, people are gonna think whatever they think.
I always thought the legal case for trumpy collusion was weak, but it wasn't nothing either.
The impoundment and extortion of Ukraine was definitely more clear cut.
as was the J6 attempted autocoup, Trump never should have been allowed to run for office again after stirring an attack on the US government, then watching it happen
Trump president, not Biden
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