For those who don’t know, Larry Ellison runs the tech company Oracle, and is consistently in the list of top-five wealthiest people in the world.

  • CarbonScored [any]
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    2910 months ago

    “…for poor people only”, Ellison finishes. Let’s put cameras on the bourgeois class and see what behaviour results.

  • Hexboare [they/them]
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    2310 months ago

    Common household cleaners can be deadly if combined and should be kept away from the vents of billionaire’s bunkers

  • rafflesia [she/her, doe/deer]
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    5210 months ago

    if god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

    Ellison’s prediction of AI-driven surveillance will rely on the development of powerful hardware, but shortages of AI-acceleration components like GPUs could slow them down.

    I’m doing my part to fight the panopticon by building a decadent gamer rig

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2510 months ago

      Christ that’d be such a fucking waste of resources. We’d be using enough power to like air condition the global south, run massive desalination plants, or any number of things necessary for survival, and we’d dedicate for facial recognition.

  • miz [any, any]
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    3510 months ago

    let’s start by putting one inside every room of every one of Larry’s houses

  • Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]
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    2310 months ago

    “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report the problem and report it to the appropriate person.”

    “As the police chief for the city that these videos are sent to, I have reviewed the footage and determined the officers involved were framed using deep fake technology. The hackers responsible will soon be taken into custody.”

    • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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      710 months ago

      this is worse than the panopticon because there’d be a machine mind fixed on every cell instead of just the possiblity of being observed.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    610 months ago

    Alternative headline: Existential threat to all of humanity escalates threats against humanity, promises discipline and order within the torment nexus

  • Hohsia [he/him]
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    610 months ago

    AI treat printers are going to be saved over actual humans in a climate crisis unless someone decides to do something very soon

  • Beaver [he/him]
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    2910 months ago

    It’s really our fault, for envisioning the torment nexus in the first place lathe-of-heaven