Palantir’s panel at a recent military conference where they joked and patted themselves on the back about the work their AI tools are doing in Gaza was like a scene with human ghouls in the darkest of horror movies.
Estimates vary as to how many of the 30,000-40,000 dead in Gaza are military combatants, but they seem to average about 20%. This seems like a terrible record of failure for an AI tool that touts its precision.
Why does the US government want to reward and endorse this tech? Why aren’t people more alarmed? By any measure, surely Palantir’s demonstrated track record is one of failure. The Israel-Hammas war is the first time the world has seen AI used in significant warfare. It’s a grim indication for the future.
Palantir’s “AI” is crap and it’s clear it has tons of false positives. But even if it was 100% accurate it wouldn’t prevent the civilian deaths if the military getting the report carpet bombs everything around the identified terrorists without caring if there are civilians around - and when the Israeli spokesperson has a very precise estimate of how many Hamas members they killed but not even a ballpark number of estimated civilian deaths it’s clear that’s what’s happening here.
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but they seem to average about 20%. This seems like a terrible record of failure for an AI tool that touts its precision.
That does seem pretty bad.
To play devil’s advocate for a moment, what systems were they using before implementing the AI tool? Were those systems better? Seems like a low bar to beat…
Must be nice to be paid half a billion, completely fail and still have a contract. I can completely fail for half that and there’d be less civilian deaths
Surprise! The company named after objects of power created by Morgoth turned out to be evil!
Palantir‘s AI:
This is so unbelievably fucked up. How are people not storming the doors of these companies? How are people not showing up in force to stop this evil craziness that LITERALLY NAMED ITSELF AFTER SOMETHING EVIL???
Oh you mean the capitalist heroes who produce incredibly expensive and therefor valuable technology, create jobs, boost the economy and eliminate terrorists? What is a civilian but a corpse that doesn’t yet know that it’ll have been a terrorist for the purposes of statistics? Their own fault for being killable in the first place - they basically asked for it.
Shareholder value tops human life, tops the livable environment of future generations, we have an unofficial new god.
Yeah. Because AI has turned out to be brilliant, especially at making things up that don’t exist.
This’ll work out great.
Once again, the frontier comes home.
