Yes, and? ICE is out there violating the law multiple times every day, in front of numerous witnesses and camera phones. The law isn't going to protect us.
Not YET. But ICE's budget is now larger the military budget for most countries. They are spending billions developing sophisticated AI-powered surveillance tech infrastructure and building detention centers (aka, concentration camps).
When they run out of immigrants to deport, they aren't going to just sell all that crap on ebay. They're going to go looking for more targets.
Palantir will give a lot of fake positives and overload remainder of ICE forces who will be chasing ghosts.
Heck even Google believes that I am a woman and is constantly showing me women hair and clothes products. And they are doing targeted data mining for ads business for decades.
ICE doesn't give a shit about false positives. They are already using a facial recognition app as definitive proof of someone's immigration status, even when they are shown documentation such as a birth certificate. They don't care if it's accurate, they just want targets.
That would make the agents culpable. If they're just doing what the AI told them to do, then who can hold them responsible? After all, the AI is smarter than all humans combined, who can argue with its wisdom?
Expect "The AI told me to do it" to be tried as a defense at Nuremburg 2.0
This is the correct question to be asking, but maybe not for the reason you thought. AI is an incredible tool for shifting liability and manufacturing plausible deniability, which appears to be exceedingly useful for authoritarian regimes around the world. Not just externally (i.e. in media), but internally as well (Ender’s Game: shoot the guy the computer says is bad, never give mind to whether or why he’s bad).
Take a look at your sibling comments, that AI is a mistake is a flawed viewpoint. It’s very much doing what it’s intended to do: shift liability and create plausible deniability.
I mean that's in Europe, but it is called Citizen ID - State issued card automatically when you are 15, looking like drivers license, renewed every 10 years.
> Up until last year, I was working as a technical writer in ML/AI. Those roles basically 'disappeared'
Ouch, hoisted by your own petard. Start a Substack positioning yourself as a reformed AI enthusiast who now rails against the economic havoc the technology leaves in its wake. I'm only half joking. A lot of folks on Substack are pretty hostile toward AI, and they would probably eat that up.
Thanks. Substack is hostile, trust me I have had a Substack for about an year. You really need to standout with a lot of convicing to even have atleast 1 person even pay to read your newsletter.
Another reason, Substack payments channels are not available in some regions which means you can't have some premium posts and again just redirecting to a lets say Buy Me Coffee page does not always work to a majority of people there.
Maybe you could have some tips on how to approach this in your experience
What I don't get about this is that it looks like there are decent open-source alternatives to all of the services mentioned. The most egregious example is the markdown editor. There are lots of free, open-source markdown editors out there. Why would you vibe-code your own? Just because you can?
This is what confused me too. Why are people paying for these types of things? They don't need vibe coding, they need a search engine. Ironically I'm confident the LLMs could find them a free version of what they're looking for. But that's the problem with them, right? They do what you ask and don't question if there's a better way
The fact that we're even talking about this shows how far the US has gone off the rails. Trump has said and done a bigly amount of insane things, but the idea of invading Greenland has to be in the top 5.
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