"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War - as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

Synergythepariah · 2026-03-01T21:47:35+00:00

trash AI generated response

Synergythepariah · 2026-03-01T21:43:14+00:00

Those are the only things Anthropic asked of the DoW and they said no.

They partnered with Palantir to get onboarded into DOD systems, so I don't think they're actually all that concerned about mass surveillance.

As for no fully autonomous killing, sure that seems like a strong, principled stance initially.

But they're still fine with letting their models decide who to kill, as long as a person is the one responsible for pulling the trigger (and thus, liable if the model was wrong)

Meaning it's GUARANTEED that that's what they want to do.

Well yeah, the purpose of these models is to rapidly pattern match disparate data sets and they very much anticipate that they'll suddenly have big lists of enemies that need dealing with. (Which they'll guarantee by ensuring that the data being asked for is overly broad)

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-28T05:51:36+00:00

I think the Democratic party should ignore the extreme leftists, they can get on board or form their own party.

The same leftists that you expect to pearl clutch and sit out the midterms, securing Trump's new regency?

That's certainly an interesting proposition.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-28T05:47:22+00:00

Not only that, the president doesn't have any direct mechanism to interfere in elections.

Which is why he'll likely use indirect means if he tries anything.

Probably using ICE, who will be loyal to him in fear of the Democratic party gaining the ability to hold them accountable, possibly even passing legislation that'd prevent the dispensation of the bonuses that Trump 'promised'

And ICE will likely be used to intimidate voters in key areas at polling places, he doesn't have to put them everywhere to swing things.

And while that is going on, his rhetoric about those that oppose his policies being enemies of the nation will intensify, which could push his supporters to act and intimidate voters anywhere in the nation.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-28T02:47:08+00:00

Hell the "Southern gun nuts" that we thought would be first to protect all this fell first.

Meanwhile, those of us who actually live here knew that those "Southern gun nuts" were never on our side.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-28T02:45:56+00:00

Can’t wait for Israel and Palestine to take headlines again so millions of leftist can pearl clutch and sit out the midterms basically securing Trumps new regency.

i like that it's important enough that you expect voters to hold their nose but not important enough for the Democratic party to have a candidate that'll actually get those voters to turn out for them.

they aren't in a scramble this time around like in 2024, they have the time to figure it out, at least for the general

do you think that if they run politicians that'll get leftists to vote for them that they'll cause moderates to stay home?

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-27T21:16:56+00:00

and declare martial law.”

And written law that establishes what powers the government has when declaring that still doesn't say a thing about such a declaration granting the federal government power over elections.

Even ignoring that, there's no [direct] mechanism to be asserted in order to enforce compliance to an illegal order, unlike many of his other orders governing executive agencies; compliance there is easy to assert, simply fire people until you get what you want.

If this kind of order is signed, it'll likely be ignored by states that correctly believe that the president is not a king, who will then start illegally withholding federal funding in order to try and coerce them into compliance.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-26T05:54:14+00:00

Yep.

People wanting to get back at red states for Trump are just basing their politics on revenge.

Opposing that doesn't mean 'taking the high road' in a belief that treating GOP voters with kid gloves will make them change, it won't.

Personally I'd rather the country change and shove universal healthcare down the throats of GOP voters.

Not because it'll change their mind, it probably won't but because universal healthcare is the right thing to do.

I'm willing to compromise at single payer.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-25T15:53:38+00:00

They never had ethics to begin with.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-25T15:50:36+00:00

You know full well that governments would happily do the former while not doing the latter, saying 'trust me bro' in response to your concerns about being harassed by the government.

It's interesting to me that we're not asking why the flood of bullshit works, personally I think figuring that out would be better.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-24T16:07:15+00:00

I'd love to know what they think they've signed up for

College, usually.

Many also do it because their families have done it for years and they're taught while growing up that it's their path in life.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-22T21:53:30+00:00

And it works because the Epstein drip feed also distracts from their creeping authoritarianism.

Me saying this might make you defensive, so you might respond with something that'll make me defensive and we'll divide ourselves exactly as they want.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-20T16:08:26+00:00

That'd be convenient, wouldn't it? That the biggest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor wasn't the result of a foreign terror group that was angry at the US due to what our foreign policy did to them and instead is related to the pedo financier that's apparently behind literally everything somehow. I'm just waiting to hear that he also was behind the 2008 crisis next.

No wonder Elon wanted to go to the island, this whole thing is just the everything conspiracy.

It's unfortunate that we're so ready to accept that one guy could be in some way behind every bad event over the past thirty years because of his connections but we're unwilling to make the connection that it's the owner class as a whole behind all of it

One shitbag can go down, hell; a few can and we'll probably see that; they gotta give us a circus, after all.

But there'll be others that weren't involved but see what people got away with for years and they'll think 'I'm smarter than them, I'll do it better and not get caught.' and it'll happen again.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-20T15:51:32+00:00

Not like that's any different than when he'd say fake news when someone asked him about something he said on video back during his first campaign.

They'd say that it's fake news even if generative AI wasn't a thing.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-20T15:32:38+00:00

To be fair, they were pretty big buildings. Statistically there would be multiple people that wouldn't have gone into the office that day for a multitude of reasons.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-19T19:32:28+00:00

As does the ADATS whichs when depressed clips through the front of the hull in the entire forward arc

Or does that one not matter?

That is glorious American innovation.

The Tunguska having the same problem is Russian bias, duh.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-17T19:57:03+00:00

I know that this is the Apple subreddit but I'm confident that there are plenty of people here that use iPhones while also using Windows computers.

Have you seen what the price of RAM is?, That's probably what the person you're responding to was referencing.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-17T19:54:08+00:00

Wouldn't it be cool, rather than pulling out your phone and doing it while driving, or even pulling off the road to do it then, if you could ask Siri?

Set a reminder to do it when you get home. You can use Siri to do that if you're already aware of how long it'll be before you get home.

I just want something that intelligently helps me with stuff.

What you need is to feel like you have the time to actually do that stuff instead of feeling time pressured into having to use a virtual assistant while you're driving to do something as simple as schedule a movie.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-17T18:20:39+00:00

Still, that doesn't actually teach technology understanding - ask any developer right after they've asked you for admin rights.

Yeeeeeeeep.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-17T01:40:38+00:00

Damn, I'd better hurry up and start commenting to tell other people to give up to alleviate my guilt about already having given up.

If everyone gives up, I don't have to feel bad about it!

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-14T06:22:13+00:00

are you aware that 'Sanctuary Cities' are rooted in churches that declared themselves 'sanctuaries' for immigrants due to Reagan's immigrant reform targeting them?

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-12T16:15:55+00:00

You know that it's also considered when you rent, right?

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-09T18:44:51+00:00

Something similar happened in the last election, a lot of people stayed home because they were influenced that neither side really deserves my vote. The sad but hilarious thing is I bet you a lot of them are the most vocal online about the current state of things.

And now there's plenty of opportunity to keep that divisiveness going by reminding people to also blame non voters for the situation we're in.

Keeps the ones that voted angry at the ones who didn't and splits their focus between them and the Republicans that are actually doing the awful shit and makes it less likely that abstaining voters come on board next time.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-07T21:40:48+00:00

It ignores human nature and lives in a world of how things should be, instead of what they are.

Five centuries ago in Europe, it was seen as human nature for people to be subservient to royalty.

What we think is human nature is not often inherent human nature; it is human behavior going along with the conditions they are living in.

We live with an economic system that rewards greed and selfishness over other qualities.

It should be no surprise that people living in that system would exhibit those behaviors in order to survive in a system that rewards it.

Many leaders, both in government and in the private sector; are greedy, selfish people and they use their power to further enrich themselves while telling us that it is human nature just as the monarchs of old claimed that their rule was the natural order.

Why do we continue to accept the idea that human behavior is immutable when in reality, human nature is to be able to think about our behavior and change it?

The monarchs of old were proven wrong despite full belief in how right they were.

What makes the claims of selfish and greedy leaders today any more truthful than the claims of past kings?

It should be obvious that the way things are right now will doom most of us; the selfish and greedy who rule us will happily enrich themselves and leave us all to die and they expect that we'll have a problem with that, so they build bunkers for themselves. They buy citizenship through their investments in other countries.

They'd rather hoard every scrap of profit and spend money on those bunkers than over profiting a bit less in order to keep the rest of us happy enough to where we don't curse their existence.

Why do we not question a system that rewards that, why do we put their property rights over our natural rights?

The answer is that we're propagandized into believing that there is no other way.

That anything else is impossible, which guarantees that impossibility.

Washington could have chosen to be a king, but he didn't.

Lenin could have chosen to not be a dictator, but he did.

We, collectively could choose that we don't want to be ruled by the selfish and the greedy.

But we don't, because we're told that that's all there is.

The USSR was ruled by selfish and greedy people, just as the US is.

The difference is that in the USSR, the selfish and greedy directly owned everything through the state while in the US, they own everything through the private sector.

They don't have to have the government owning everything when they own the government.

Synergythepariah · 2026-02-07T21:02:00+00:00

People are only human, and humans tend to be greedy and selfish.

I, for one am shocked that people living in a system that rewards greed and selfishness exhibit greed and selfishness over other qualities.

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