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[–] 26 points 15 hours ago

Only one reason I can think that Anthropic would invest money into a project like this.

They must be doing this so activists can connect with each other and unify for the same cause. Strength in awareness and numbers. Anthropic must be a company for the people.

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  • [–] 10 points 14 hours ago

    the rule of law no longer applies.

    your constitutional rights no longer exist.

    you are a criminal slave that exists purely to increase shareholder value.

    you haven't even said "thank you", scum.

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  • [–] 14 points 16 hours ago

    This reminds me of the movie minority report

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  • [–] 20 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

    If anyone needs to be monitored, it's all of these fucking techno-feudalist freaks.

    If you know what feudalism is, and want it back so bad that you're willing to bankroll it to the tune of billions of dollars, then you need to be monitored. At the very least. A real, functioning democracy would take those types of threats to its existence seriously.

    Instead we (e.g. any alleged form of government safe guard meant to protect us from devolving back into such barbaric forms of society like feudalism) just sit back and say "huh, I wonder if they'll be able to completely destroy our government this time. Oh well, guess we'll find out". Or even worse, now that these psychopaths control the levers of government in the US, they are actually aiding it. They think they want feudalism back because they're just temporarily embarrassed feudal lords.

    Edit:

    These people literally want to make us back into serfs. And we'll answer to a fucking LLM. That will be the only interface between us and the Lords. You know that Amazon chatbot? That's your boss now... Err no that's not right. The word "boss," is not sufficient to describe the relationship. That chat bot owns you now. Well, the person who owns the server it's running on owns you, but why would they ever choose to interact with dirty serfs when AI can do it? If it's important, they'll relay it to them. They won't even be aware of your medical complaints, let alone need to hear them, let alone need to address the working conditions that created them.

    This shit is not a joke and it is very much not funny. It's genuinely insane that we are allowing this to happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

    It's genuinely insane that we are allowing this to happen.

    What are we supposed to do though? Honest question. Everything just seems so hopeless.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    Connect with your community. Work at a local level, and build from that foundation with others doing the same to take on bigger problems

    Things are going to get rough for the whole planet, seems like that's unavoidable at this point, but that doesn't mean things are going to be bad everywhere all the time

    One person can't fix the world, but you can make life better for the people around you. Things can get better locally. Good, even

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago

    Hey, just asking the question is a good first step. Talk to people in your community (family, friends, workplace, the gym, wherever you spend time) about these problems. Ask them what they think. Gently suggest some solutions based on working together. If you really don’t have any solutions, say “then what are we supposed to do?” again, and brainstorm some ideas together.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago

    minority report prologue

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  • [–] 6 points 16 hours ago

    Imagine being so angry that the poor people don't love you that you speed run singularity to try get revenge.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    So after temporarily being the good guys for resisting trump, they’re going all in on being evil I presume to court trump?

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  • [–] 19 points 23 hours ago

    tHe mOSt EthICaL Ai ComPanY

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    activists= everyone not a white, republican, christian.

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    [–] 5 points 19 hours ago

    Lol, they are butthurt flock beat them to this? 🤣

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  • [–] 67 points 1 day ago* (7 children)

    Not rapists, child molesters, kidnappers, murderers, human traffickers, spies, or terrorists!? They are going after activists... Yeah they are fucking evil and know it.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Well the part of the article that quotes the actual job listing:

    Part of that role, compensated at between $180,000 and $230,000, will be to “identify, assess, track, and investigate global threats including geopolitical instability, terrorism, crime, activism, nation-state targeting of the AI sector, and emerging security trends, including deep-dive research and OSINT collection on specific threats, actors, and events” (emphasis added).

    But yeah, not a good look especially if you consider who decides what "terrorism" and "crime" mean in the US right now.

    And now for a tangent I wrote that you can just skip if you're not interested:

    The part about specifically tracking AI activists was that they watch for anti-AI protests anywhere where their executives go so they know to stay out of the way, but... How do they not realize that they've brought this upon themselves? Market AI as "doing everyone's job" and "super dangerous" and of course people will be pissed at you. Dario himself is the one constantly parroting how the next Claude model is so dangerous it needs to be kept in adamantium chains and whatnot. Like your industry is already pissing people off with the data centers and the cost of computer parts, why you gotta tell everyone you're working to put us all out of jobs?

    Jfc I'm a software engineer with no marketing or PR experience and I think even I could do better PR than all these companies supposedly worth billions. If OpenAI is already farming outrage, just position yourself as the more responsible alternative and you'll still get sales without your execs needing to fear for your lives... Occasionally release a smaller, less capable version of Claude as open weight to win mindshare among developers, the people actually burning tons of tokens right now. Like Alibaba does with Qwen, just don't release the full size model like Alibaba does if you're afraid people are going to run it in competition with you.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    Thanks for the additional information.

    I am very suspicious because I saw a flock video (I know, different company) where they just happened to be training on a No King's protest. I am sure it is just a coincidence /s

    You are correct as US terrorism is now exclusively trans, anti-fascists, and a leftwing problem. It is obviously going to be problematic having anyone, let alone the fucking psychopath they will hire for this job, be the "AI whisperer".

    You cannot audit a decision made by current LLM AI. This means you can't even guarantee it was the AI that said it. For all we know someone could be on a terminal somewhere thousands of miles away providing the answer.

    Companies consistently lie about what they do. It would be a mistake to believe it is just to save a CEO from having to deal with a protester. Furthermore, this is a violation of other people's rights to privacy. They don't have the authorization to track people as a private company. They are already openly violating the law and acting extremely unethically. I see no reason to trust them.

    They certainly have the money for PR so why haven't they been flexing this muscle? I think the answer is they know they don't have to. They don't care about public opinion because they already know they will get what they want and public opinion doesn't matter.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Wasn't this the macguffin that Captain America blew up Shield to stop?

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    [–] 5 points 20 hours ago

    This is way too far. Time to dust off the pitchforks

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago*

    The powers do monitor activists on regular internet too and at their meetings in churches and union halls, install spyware on their phones, like they've been doing.


    The powers do spy,

    In churches and union halls,

    Plant spyware on phones

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago

    #precrime #thoughtcrime

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  • [–] 81 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    while Anthropic was fast to call the cops on a frustrated Claude user, the Standard also reported a key detail: Anthropic refused to show police the actual messages, citing Anthropic’s internal policy. In short, Anthropic reported a user for in-platform speech, and then refused to provide police with evidence of actual wrongdoing.

    Anthropic's apparent game plan:

    1. Get a list of anti-AI advocates
    2. Swat them
    3. Refuse to show evidence of claims
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    [–] 29 points 1 day ago

    Anthropic needs to die.

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  • [–] 154 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    This is exactly what “I have nothing to hide” should sound exceedingly thin. If “knowledge is power”, then they already have power over you. It will start with “activists“ for “safety purposes,” just like flock, but it ends in totalitarianism.

    “A republic, if we can keep it.”

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    [–] 77 points 1 day ago (23 children)

    I don't want to be all "I told you so" but I have been saying they're building all these data centers for surveillance reasons for a while now. Like people aren't using LLMs enough for any reason to justify all the data centers and the numbers aren't growing, but Surveillance Data? That's always growing.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Yup. It's a scary time. You take some LinkedIn data, some Walmart shopping habits, a Spotify user catalog, a Google timeline, combined with Flock footage - mix it all together with "AI" - and suddenly you've got an extremely detailed profile of any individual you want. And we're only in the early stages. That is, spying, prediction, eavesdropping... The only logical conclusion to the surveillance apparatus is an evolution towards an apparatus for control. And it will be the most sinister, subtle, and undetectable type of coercion imaginable.

    I just want to grill for gods sake.

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    [–] 13 points 1 day ago

    Philip k dick just died again.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago

    to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence

    I was wondering when they'd start building Roko's Basilisk.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    That was expected. It was the only use for AI right now that might be profitable.

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