Don’t want to be that guy, but this is far from new news.
"Less than two weeks ago, the United States conducted a drone strike over central Yemen, killing one al-Qaeda operative. The strike was the last under Obama (that we know of). The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians. As he reportedly told senior aides in 2011: “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”
This is from 2017. You can find even older stuff.
As far as I can tell, it’s been reality for like 20 years now. The drones became smaller and perhaps more precise, that is all
That’s a bit scary.
“The government plans to begin sending killer drones after you!”
[…the rest of the article…]
“I urgently need you to call your government representative and tell them you think that’s bad; also vote”
Which was revealed when Anthropic made their very simple demands and the administration threw a tantrum.
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No fully autonomous murder; a human must make the final decision.
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No domestic mass surveillance.
Pretty simple demands that should have been easy to agree to.
I’m still convinced this was just pure theatre to present them as the good and independent company that’s totally not working with the fascist state.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Why would they want to turn down the ability to collect surveillance data on all their enemies?
I wouldn’t say “pure” theatre. I think the demands were serious while also being a common sense PR move that would also motivate (or not demotivate) their employees.
But they were supposed to just be easy to agree to. “Okay, yeah, we’ll have an overseer on the murder bots, and we won’t use it to spy on Americans.” Even with an optional wink wink nudge nudge, it still mostly works for Anthropic’s PR.
It was supposed to be a layup, and the administration airballed it.
it seems like the whole drama didn’t really impact usage of their models by government agencies though
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goes both ways. drones are 3d printable, and nazis can also explode.
they may not want to open this pandora’s box.
They do, and they will win. I’m at least glad it is finally over, no one wanted to fight back, well the nazis can just kill us off already, and have their shit world.
They aren’t winning in Iran. Why is that?
Other fascists kicking their ass atm because of a blunder.
Fucking cowards using flying drones. Kill me with a full humanoid and then I’ll be impressed.
cowards
Haha, keep going. I’m sorry, but news flash, they don’t care. To them, even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
Gonna link to this thread the next time someone gives me shit for adding a /s to what they thought was “obviously” sarcasm.
I recently read Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez from 2012. All in all it was an OK read, but I couldn’t help feeling that the book had been overtaken by reality.
At the time that was the case as well - drone activity during the “war on terror” was widespread and largely indiscriminate in targeting.
