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Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries
- veryemartguy 7mo ago[flagged]
- Cyph0n 7mo ago[flagged]
- selimthegrim 7mo agoI guess the Second Amendment only counts if your last name is Bundy (not Ted, obviously)
- kittikitti 7mo ago[flagged]
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- kittikitti 7mo ago> The Israeli's are using the same tactics that the Nazi's used against the Jews in the holocaust. My original reply was flagged, and while you may think it's bullshit, I hope you don't think it should be censored.
- SR2Z 7mo agoThe only situation in which 2A will stop mattering is if the government decides it is willing to level American cities to achieve its future goals. You cannot kick down doors with AI. You cannot infiltrate meetings with AI (well, at least not if the meeting holders have good opsec). AI is great if you want to identify targets, but it does not move the needle very much on an occupation. If you want to preserve the area you're occupying then you will have to pay for it in blood.
- catlikesshrimp 7mo agoThere haven't been may israeli lives lost besides those in october 7th. The blood used to pay has only been Palestine.
- reliabilityguy 7mo ago> There haven't been may israeli lives lost besides those in october 7th. Due to the Iron Dome and shelter in every apartment building. The government prioritizes defense of its citizens.
- SR2Z 7mo agoThere have been plenty of lives lost on both sides for almost a century now. It's deranged to think that one side should get to carry on as usual while the other one has to give in. There was a good chance for peace in the 90s. Why don't you look up who walked away from the deal and why?
- danny_codes 7mo agoNot really. Drones give you pretty good tracking/murdering capability. I suspect ground based systems either similar characteristics will be deployed soon.
- rubyfan 7mo agoIt’s easier to use psyops and cause fear and uncertainty.
- whattheheckheck 7mo agoWhat are the odds of a lethal drone strike on an American citizen within the USA borders in the next 10 years?
- hirvi74 7mo ago> The only situation in which 2A will stop mattering is if the government decides it is willing to level American cities to achieve its future goals. That wouldn't even be necessary. A siege/blockade would cripple any resistance after enough attrition. Take any moderate or large city. It's hard to maintain hundreds of thousands to millions of people with no running water, electricity, agriculture, fuel, healthcare, etc..
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- reliabilityguy 7mo ago> but the Gaza genocide War is not a genocide.
- Cyph0n 7mo agoWrong, but feel free to replace genocide with whatever term you deem politically correct and try to understand my wider point.
- reliabilityguy 7mo ago> Wrong No, not wrong. Hutu committed genocide. Turks committed genocide against Armenians. But the war in Gaza is not a genocide once you consider facts and compare to other modern conflicts. > and try to understand my wider point Your point is founded on falsehoods.
- mikestorrent 7mo agoSo edgy; is being an apologist really the noble calling you think it is? Both are just words, mappings to concepts in our minds; "genocide" is an invented term, but it has a widely shared definition that the UN helped formalize, and in the minds of many, many people all over the world, the term applies here. "War" could one day be waged against whatever group you belong to, as well. You may wish for the country waging it to follow the Geneva Convention so that your sons gain a small chance of becoming POWs and returning to you, instead of being destroyed by an autonomous drone. Comments like yours endorse the actions that are being done; we're beginning to recognize the term "hasbara" for them.
- klipt 7mo agoDoesn't the Geneva Convention state that if militants build an underground base beneath a civilian building, that civilian building becomes a military target? Gaza is Swiss-cheesed with hundreds of miles of military tunnels. If any attack on a tunnel is disallowed because of civilian buildings above it, I predict many countries will start adopting the Hamas strategy of putting military bases under civilian buildings. That way, every attack on your bases becomes a war crime by your enemy - you can't lose!
- hirvi74 7mo ago> the 2nd amendment will mean absolutely nothing in the not too distant future It hasn't for many decades now. The armaments that civilians are allowed to legally own pale in comparison to what the military has. AI powered drones would just automate turning people into pink mist.
- Cyph0n 7mo agoI agree, but I believe Gaza is the culmination of this reality due to the cross-section of advanced surveillance, drone tech, and AI-based warfare. It is the first time this combination is fully applied to a non-conventional military/guerilla group in a highly concentrated, urban setting. Also, given that many 2A proponents still believe in it as a legitimate “correction” mechanism, Gaza should be the final wake up call.
- battle-racket 7mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
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- ra 7mo ago"Palantir's AI" is Anthropic Claude.
- p_l 7mo agoDepends on specific cases, I have on good authority of how in few "bleeding edge" ones they essentially repacked/wrapped YOLOv3. Purpose was specifically tracking in adversarial conditions (smoke, including smokescreen, obstacles, etc)
- Onavo 7mo agoFor realtime on the edge the YOLO series is pretty good, I don't think anyone would disagree. Most of the really advanced stuff like Vision Language models all require a lot more compute and power budget.
- nextaccountic 7mo agoWhy YOLOv3 and not something more recent? Like YOLO26 or something
- p_l 7mo agoI only have the reflection from "client side" saying that all the military contractors rolled in with essentially YOLOv3 wrapped in custom software
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- benlivengood 7mo agoPalantir employees probably know how easy it would be to correlate any post they make to their real identity.
- trelane 7mo agoAlso that they are unlikely to get a fair shake unless they say what folks here want to hear.
- mikestorrent 7mo agoWell, what we don't want to hear is "I'm just doing my job"
- buzzerbetrayed 7mo agoHN in a nutshell
- AnonHP 7mo agoI think Meta employees don’t protest either for the genocides its platforms aided and supported or the other harms caused to kids in general. Maybe the pay is so good that one can convince oneself they’re on the good side. Maybe these companies attract a certain type of personality that doesn’t necessarily care much about others.
- vkou 7mo agoThe answer is that responsibility is diffused. Very few people are actively building the 'Genocide Palestine' or the 'Illegally detain and torture immigrants' system, but a lot of people have submitted CLs to microservices that the 'Genocide Palestine' system (as well as a thousand others) calls. Modern America is the complete antithesis of 'The Buck Stops Here.' It's more of an 'I have absolute power, and none of the accountability' sort of place. If the president, or one of his armed, masked thugs with a license to kill can't ever be held accountable for the evil, vile shit they do, why should some low-level SWE feel any remorse or responsibility for those CLs? --- The solution? Don't tolerate it. Don't settle for no accountability. Don't think this is no big deal, or business as usual. The only way out of this, if power is ever taken back, is disproportionate punishment for the guilty. The country can move on and heal after justice is fairly apportioned. Incidentally, both war crimes, and deprivation of rights under color of law are capital crimes in the United States.
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- drums8787 7mo agoDehomag. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
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- AnonHP 7mo agoI skimmed through the article. I didn’t understand what role AI supposedly plays in this case for tracking aid deliveries. For tracking you need sensors and connectivity from the mode of delivery, location information, some analytics and databases. What does this AI do for tracking? I can understand a sales pitch that says AI decides where to provide aid, how much, when, etc. But tracking deliveries? It’s a head scratcher for me.
- yunnpp 7mo agoI'm not the expert and the details that the company would put out are obviously obtuse, but: image detection/identification, predictive policing, and planning. The latter sounds to me like they'd have some system where people enter reports in natural language and an LLM assembles the information together and then proposes some plan of action. As opposed to having to have a more structured data entry and the friction that comes with it. It's all in the article if you read between the lines, really.
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- nielsbot 7mo agoSorry, but if honest coverage of Israel is considered bashing it, then it deserves to be “bashed“ Israel is still bombing people in tents and withholding aid. Israel is doing to the Palestinians exactly what the US did to the Native Americans. I sadly expect Palestinians will end up on reservations and once their numbers and little remaining power are reduced enough they’ll finally be given some form of second class citizenship. But tell me where I’m wrong.
- karakt 7mo agowhy draw the line on palantir? why not involve microsoft amd intel who provides their computers, or car manufacturers that provides their vehicles? been seeing lots of these attacks on defense companies without providing a better alternative and a concrete plan they can execute
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- _DeadFred_ 7mo agoAs an American this is the first post I have ever feared replying to because the company discussed is both powerful in government and does active online monitoring and reporting to the government and could impact me forever. So that might in itself include an answer. I wanted to post and highlight direct quotes from this company's leadership but honestly think there is a risk of personal blowback in some way.
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