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Five men control AI. Who should control them?
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Palantir are now looking at using AI to help defend or destroy reputations, possibly starting with journalists...
And they're backed in this by big banks and the CIA. Making them a type of AI kingmaker, and a threat to anyone whose ever googled something weird, or asked an AI something weird:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAqE03jiff4
The data collection device they've made the Internet into just became a threat to... everyone.
Time to start askng really weird questions and perhaps build a script that uses a browser and makes random web searches and lands on, opens and scrolls pages for a span of between 2 and 5 minutes, then moves on.