Ja, war alles bekannt, aber unsere lieben Landsleute haben ihn trotzdem gewählt, wohl weil sie immer die CDU wählen - keine Ahnung. Das werden beim nächsten Mal dann vermutlich diejenigen sein, die die AfD in die Regierung bringen, wenn, wie auch diese Geschichte wieder zeigt, einfach fröhlich weitergeklüngelt wird und es deshalb eben auch immer weiter abwärts geht.
Tja, was ist auch schon anderes von einer Regierung um Friedrich Merz zu erwarten? Der Mann ist selbst Lobbyist (Quelle).
Es ist schon wirklich ernüchternd, dass die Wähler hierzulande ganz genauso unfassbar dämlich sind wie die in den USA: Erst wählen sie die Konservativen, die das Land durch Klüngelei und Korruption komplett runterwirtschaften, indem sie jegliche Innovation verhindern, und dann sind sie empört und wählen die gottverdammte AfD, die sich als Alternative verkauft, tatsächlich aber nichts weiter als eine Truppe hirnverbrannter, korrupter Nazis ist, die eine ebenso grenzenlos neoliberale Politik verfolgt - wenn nicht sogar noch schlimmer als CDU und FDP. Aber das Parteiprogramm hat natürlich keiner gelesen, weil Ausländer und so…
Denke, es wird nicht mehr lange dauern, bis wir alle in einem ähnlich dystopischen, absolut selbstverschuldeten Alptraum gefangen sind, wie die saublöden Amerikaner. Und dann wird es kein Zurück mehr geben - daran arbeitet die CDU ja bereits etwa mit der (völlig widerrechtlichen) Einführung von Palantir.
Yes, maybe a bit much, but it would have been very fitting, since the marketing is obviously aimed specifically at the villains of the world—perhaps for the next project.
It’s quite telling of the times we live in that you can make it so obvious these days. You’d think that at least some concealment of the intentions behind these mass surveillance products would be appropriate, but I guess with people like Trump in the White House, Putin in the Kremlin, Netanyahu in Israel, and many others of that caliber, it’s no longer necessary.
And in case it wasn’t already clear enough how absurd this all is, the creeps at Palantir are now actually so brazen as to officially call one of their mass surveillance systems “Project Gotham”…brave new world.
This reminds me of something… What was it… Hmm…
I’m not entirely sure why all of this is being blamed on Russian propaganda. To me, that seems like a lame excuse for the US getting itself into this mess.
In any case, there will certainly be no mysterious agents coming to rescue you from your self-imposed fascism. You’ll have to do that yourselves, so I would strongly recommend that you stop assigning blame and finally do something—otherwise, you won’t be able to post on Lemmy anymore because you’ll be brought into line by the state—then you could complain about Russian conditions, if that were still possible.
I’m not sure, but I think that in the 90s, those goddamn Nazis couldn’t express their despicable views publicly without being met with widespread contempt. So it seems to me that the 90s were much more “woke,” whatever that means.
I’m glad you like that. Stevie Ray Vaughn is one of my all time favorite blues musicians and he is probably one of the best guitarists of all time. He belongs on every playlist, at least from time to time, but that’s just my opinion.
Ja, das wüsste ich auch gern, zumal mir der Einsatz von Palantir bereits mit der deutschen Verfassung unvereinbar scheint (etwa Grundrecht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung -> vom Bundesverfassungsgericht aus Art. 2 Abs. 1 i.V.m. Art. 1 Abs. 1 GG entwickelt).
Eben deshalb: Ich vermute, dass dieses Ansinnen weit über die übliche Inkompetenz oder Lobbyismus-Bemühungen vonseiten Thiel hinausgeht - ich kann es mir nur so erklären, dass unsere Politik-Spezis dafür bezahlt werden, die Rechte derjenigen zu untergraben, die sie eigentlich vertreten sollen. Falls nicht das, scheint es zumindest so, als ob sie dafür sorgen sollen, dass Abermillionen ohne irgendeinen Nutzen an Palantir verschwendet werden (bereits der Fall etwa in Bayern oder BW), denn diese Software ist vollkommen nutzlos, wenn sie nicht mit Daten gefüttert wird, die dann zusammengeführt werden - und das ist eben weder in Deutschland noch auf europäischer Ebene zulässig.
Wie gesagt: Anders als mit Korruption ist es für mich nicht zu erklären, weil sowohl die Rechtslage völlig eindeutig als auch das Sicherheitsrisiko in Sachen ausländische Spionage enorm ist.
Ist natürlich verschwörungstheoretisch und nicht zu belegen, aber bei diesen Leuten wundert mich wirklich gar nichts mehr.
Unsere Politiker sind einfach absurd.
Palantir ist grundsätzlich nicht mit europäischem Recht (etwa GDPR) vereinbar - außerdem ist es eine US-Anwendung, die Tür und Tor für die Bespitzelung von EU-Bürgern (auch) durch die USA öffnet und Wirtschaftsspionage in nie da gewesener Größenordnung ermöglicht - beides auch noch völlig ohne Not.
Es ist kriminell, eine Anwendung, die (illegitimerweise) derart tief in die Bürgerrechte eingreift, auch noch ausgerechnet in die Hände von Faschisten legen zu wollen, die belegtermaßen keinerlei Interesse an demokratischen Strukturen haben.
Wie man gerade in der aktuellen Situation auch nur darüber nachdenken kann, ist für mich nur noch mit Korruption zu erklären, weil es dermaßen hirnrissig ist und den Interessen der Europäer nicht stärker zuwiderlaufen könnte.
Yes, that’s right: LLMs are definitely sold that way: “Save on employees because you can do it with our AI”, which sounds attractive to naive employers because personnel costs are the largest expense in almost every company.
And that’s also true: it obscures what LLMs can actually do and where their value lies: this technology is merely a tool that workers in almost any industry can use to work even more effectively - but that’s apparently not enough of an USP: people are so brainwashed that they eat out of the marketing people’s hands because they hear exactly what they want to hear: I don’t need employees anymore because now there are much cheaper robot slaves.
In my opinion, all of this will lead to a step backward for humanity because it will mean that lots and lots of artists, scientists, journalists, writers, even Administrative staff and many other essential elements of society will no longer be able to make a living from their profession.
In the longer term, it will lead to the death of innovation and creativity because it will no longer be possible to make a living from such traits - AI can’t do any of that.
In other words, AI is the wet dream of all those who do not contribute to value creation but (strangely enough) are paid handsomely to manage the wonderful work of those who actually do contribute to value creation.
Unfortunately, it was to be expected how this technology would be used, because sadly, in most societies, the focus is not on contributing to society, but on who has made the most money from these contributions, which in the vast majority of cases is not the person who made the contribution. The use of AI is also based on this logic – how could it be otherwise?
Indeed. A major problem with LLMs is the marketing term “artificial intelligence”: it gives the false impression that these models would actually understand their output, which is not the case - in essence, it is more of a probability calculation based on what is available in the training data and what the user asks - it’s a kind of collage of different pieces of info from the training data that gets mixed and arranged in a new way based on the query.
As long as it’s not a prompt that conflicts directly with the data set (“Explain why the world is flat”), you get answers that are relevant to the question - however, LLMs are neither able to decide on their own whether one source is more credible than another, nor can they make moral decisions because they do not “think,” but are merely another kind of search engine so to speak.
However, the way many users use LLMs is more like a conversation with a human being – and that’s not what these models are; it’s just how they’re sold but not at all what they are designed to do or what they are capable of.
But yes, this will be a major problem in the future as most models are controlled by billionaires that do not want them to be what they should be: Tools that help parsing great amounts of Information. They want them to be propaganda machines. So as with other Technologies: Not AI ist the problem but the ruthless way in which this technology is being used (by greedy wheelers and dealers).
Apart from the fact that Trump is a pedophile, rapist, fascist, and a criminal, he and his entire administration are also incredibly incompetent.
Well, you know what they say about Fridays…
Here in Germany, at least something is happening. Recently, for example, the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein decided to switch to Linux (and also LibreOffice), with the change planned for this fall.
Overall, however, far too little is happening in our country. The vast majority of federal states and the national government continue to rely on proprietary software (mainly from US corporations, especially Microsoft).
At the national level, this is hardly surprising, as our Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is more of a US lobbyist than a politician: Until 2020, he was on the supervisory board of Black Rock Germany and was also a long time chairman of the “Atlantik-Brücke”, a German-American lobby organization for economic relations (so on and so forth). Unfortunately, no change of course is to be expected from him — nor from his party, the conservative CDU, that is the most popular party for some strange reason.
In Bavaria, which is also deeply conservative, the federal state government is even considering introducing Palantir.
I don’t understand how all this can happen when it is perfectly obvious how vulnerable all these US products are making us – vulnerable to industrial espionage and worse - especially now that the US is developing into a fascist, unjust state.
But hey, I think we all have to remain somewhat positive despite all this. As I said, there is some movement in terms of FOSS —probably much more in other European countries than in Germany. So, slowly but steady, we’re moving forward! I really hope that’s how it is in the US as well.
Best of luck in these harsh times!
Still far too low, considering that the US is now a police state.
The US is a failed state. There’s no other way to put it.
Pls don’t do this!