In 2012, Palantir quietly embedded itself into the daily operations of the New Orleans Police Department. There were no public announcements. No contracts made available to the city council. Instead, the surveillance company partnered with a local nonprofit to sidestep oversight, gaining access to years of arrest records, licenses, addresses, and phone numbers all to build a shadowy predictive policing program.
Palantir’s software mapped webs of human relationships, assigned residents algorithmic “risk scores,” and helped police generate “target lists” all without public knowledge. “We very much like to not be publicly known,” a Palantir engineer wrote in an internal email later obtained by The Verge.
After years spent quietly powering surveillance systems for police departments and federal agencies, the company has rebranded itself as a frontier AI firm, selling machine learning platforms designed for military dominance and geopolitical control.
"AI is not a toy. It is a weapon,” said CEO Alex Karp. “It will be used to kill people.”
Great job making a case for the people who don’t actually do any research or due diligence but just drop a “read the wiki” 😂
Smugfaceman: “I posted le wall of text of random dubious sources, get rekt libtards”
Am I obliged to sacrifice my time to correct nonsense? I don’t think so.
Do your own due diligence if you don’t believe me.
You just dropped the “Do your own research”? Where have I heard that before? Ah right, baseless claims by conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxers, and the typical right wing nutters.
Its interesting, right?
A shares their insight on the matter, B just says it’s not true, A comes with sources, quotes and an explanation for their insights, B says nu’uh but I won’t explain further because it’s hard and I don’t want to.
Comes across as lazy and vacuous, just saying.