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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

We need them pointed at every tech CEO constantly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Welcome to China

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Theyre already there

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Omnipresent super-soakers full of paint will ensure they wont.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

One of those spray paint cans on a stick they use to paint lines on the ground

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

we should test edge cases to ensure safety, let's shove one down this guys' throat

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Why don't you volunteer to be the test case Larry?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You want a dystopia? Because that's how you get a dystopia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

They do, one with them at the top

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

The fascists think they die happy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah but what is "good" behaviour?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

What if we just get the AI cameras to “hallucinate” our good behaviour?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

1984 was not a manual

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Only if I can use AI and cameras to follow police around, map them, and use pattern recognition to make sure they behave as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nope. It is only for the peons. Dissidents will have ANY behavior be seen as bad and the fascists will be identified specifically to train the AI to ignore them or automatically rule them out as suspects. Blame their victims and not the perps.

BTW, people like Zuckerberg fucking HATE people like you and me. He considered the people who trusted him with their emails (when he was in university and coming up with the idea of Facebook) to be absolute idiots and even more so for trusting him with that information. He lives his life in a way that insures that we know as little about him as possible. He lives in a compound that is impossible to view via satellite imagery AND he has the actual house he lives in surrounded by dummy buildings specifically so that people cannot spy on his with telescopes. He is obsessed with privacy and probably has never been seen on CCTV in years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well yeah my comment was sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am aware, but sometimes my autism still demands I write it anyway. In my experience comments read by people can still inform them even if they have no idea who wrote them and the reason why. I just want to leave the world a better place than I found it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I wish I could do the same with veganism :) Spreading love and equality.

But I just get an army of haters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Also I expect there should be more surveillance around powerful people like Larry Ellison, right?

The more powerful, the more important is to ensure good behavior, and the more public / peer-reviewed the AI model and its logs should be to avoid tampering/laundering.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

They consider themselves to be gods and so far better than you and me that any behavior on their part is none of your business (even if it directly affected you and your entire family and community) but if you so much have a 10 minute variation in your sleep they want to know and probably film you when sleeping without any justification and they will tell you to go to hell if you tell them to stop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I'm sure they are up for that to prove their innocence!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Like person of interest?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh for fucks sake can we please stop putting AI everywhere

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

they put that shit into water bottles... water bottles! Like they have a water bottle that can be synched to your phone and it's % shown on screen and it changes color at set intervals to remind you to drink. Like for fucks sake dude!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If it results in innocent people in LA not getting fucking stabbed trying to ride the metro, it'll be good.

Otherwise this is just another fat government contract waiting for a tech bro to get their hands on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The LA metro? Like, theres a passenger/commuter train in LA?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They will ensure a lot of smashed up AI cameras that's for sure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

While wearing a mask that'll fool AI on top of a ski mask beneath it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Don’t try to anthropomorphize Larry Ellison.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Billionaire wants a totalitarian state, who’s surprised?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Well how else is he going to fortify his ridiculous amount of wealth from the unwashed masses?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

When you can get ticketed for speeding while your car is on the back of a tow truck:
https://www.the-sun.com/motors/11008328/photo-towing-van-speeding-ticket-evidence/

Or a red light traffic ticket when your car was stolen:
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-red-light-ticket-camera-illinois-car-stolen-theft/11677595/

And the police/courts won't help you because it's a problem from the private company running the cameras... I think we can see where some sort of AI backed camera network is headed.

A bandaid to fix this might be to setup an easy way for someone to dispute the charge. For every day that it takes the company to review the dispute, they would need to pay back the accused the same amount that they are charging them (with a minimum of paying them back twice the amount of the fine).

Even then, I'd rather cameras not be used in this way at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I’ll just base my conduct on Larry Ellison’s actions instead. As he is championing constant surveillance, he is surely the most virtuous of us all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Fuck Larry Ellison.

Now he's going for super-villainy against people who've never even heard of Oracle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

If he really believed that he wouldn’t live in a gated castle.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Maybe I'm an outlier, but omnipresent AI cameras would ensure bad behavior in my case.

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