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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Can't wait for a hallucinating AI to report me for assault because I hugged someone in public.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Maybe they should require everyone to be happy all the time. I'm just imagining everyone going around with freaky smiles.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, he's a billionaire. I guess there's big money on propping up totalitarian regimes.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's start by putting up cameras in all his houses.

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

Maybe that will ensure he behaves all the time ☺️

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Billionaire wants a totalitarian state, who’s surprised?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just gonna tell tweakers those things are full of copper

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I saw a sign on each street light on a bike path in my town that said "these street lights use aluminium cabling because the copper was stolen".

Your plan will work.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Will Ellison and government officials volunteer to be observed for next 5 years to prove software?

(No.)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] wargreymon 6 points 2 months ago

The fascists think they die happy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single corrections officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.

Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates' cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched motivates them to act as though they are all being watched at all times. They are effectively compelled to self-regulation. The architecture consists of a rotunda with an inspection house at its centre. From the centre, the manager or staff are able to watch the inmates. Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatoriums, and asylums. He devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a panopticon prison, so the term now usually refers to that.

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

I suspect Bentham underestimated the nature of misanthropic behavior.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months 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] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] Shizrak 12 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

1984 was not a manual

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

We need them pointed at every tech CEO constantly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Theyre already there

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh for fucks sake can we please stop putting AI everywhere

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months 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] 7 points 2 months ago

He proposed a shitty Art Park on Lanai, the island he bought the majority of, and wanted to set up surveillance to stop "vandals".

Worked on the plumbing for the fountains he wanted to building. Those surveillance measures never came to be, yet...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why do we even care what these tech-bro ass hats think? We already collectively know his vision apply only to "poor people".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because they have undue power over our lives.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shitty billionaire has a shitty take. Shocker.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Shitty billionaire

ah but you repeat yourself

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Welcome to China

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

Like person of interest?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Fuck Larry Ellison.

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

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

AI camera VS. A .45 Magnum

Tune in next decade to find out who will win this epic battle.

Edit: Why does this guy look like Adam Sutler from V for Vendetta?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah but what is "good" behaviour?

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

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

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