@cwebber But is it that, though?

Or are people still looking at it from a reactionary point of view?

Are people using this technology in ways that it shouldn’t have been intended because it was sold to them by people who wanted to maximize profit by any means necessary.

This is like saying that HTML is the devel because Palantir uses it to code their websites.

It’s like saying the compass is evil because that’s how the slave ships navigated the Atlantic Ocean.

@majorlinux

"This is like saying that HTML is the devel because Palantir uses it to code their websites.

It’s like saying the compass is evil because that’s how the slave ships navigated the Atlantic Ocean."

But it isn't AT ALL like that. Palantir did not invent HTML and slave traders didn't invent the compass. In neither case did they directly profit or gain power by the mass adoption of those technologies by society.

This is more like adopting and becoming dependent on a product or service specifically provided by Palantir or taking a job constructing or operating the ships owned by the slave trader.

@cwebber

@msh Neither did these companies create “artificial intelligence” nor the methods in which it was created.

All they did was take open tools and built the torment nexus because it would make them a ton of money.

Who’s to say we couldn’t also take the tools and make something that would have benefited humanity and the planet?

Earlier iterations of this same tech already exist and don’t exploit.

New versions exist that don’t exploit.