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@ErikUden@mastodon.deDay three of Trump's term and the largest push for surveillance capitalism yet has been made: Project Stargate will be a $500.000.000.000 (500 billion USD) data center used for running a multitude of AIs with the purpose of spying on you.
Larry Ellison, the world's second richest man and CEO of Oracle, one of the main partners of Stargate, said:
“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on [...]. We're using A.I. to monitor the video.”
— Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle on how the company's A.I. systems will be used for in the future [Source: Business Insider [archive.ph]]
This is who is in power now. This is the vision they have.
Read more about the Stargate Project here:
- https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-openai-oracle-softbank-son-altman-ellison-be261f8a8ee07a0623d4170397348c41
- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4m84d2xz2o
- https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/trump-announces-500b-stargate-ai-infrastructure-project-with-agi-aims/
Or watch this good summary by Fireship:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4m84d2xz2o
@ErikUden that's extremely terrifying.
@stephanie He said this as a response to how he e envisions his company's A.I. will be used for and how that makes money. Aiding law enforcement and the state in ensuring citizens will be on their best behavior.
@ErikUden We already knew this was happening and would happen more. But, i don't know, something about the fact that they don't even bother hiding it now...
@stephanie @ErikUden It very much feels like the Torment Nexus meme: they are cheerfully inventing the future that dystopic science fiction tried to warn us against, and don't even understand why people might consider that a bad thing.
@ErikUden @stephanie We need more Luigis.
@stephanie @ErikUden The intent is terrifying. The project itself is a huge waste of money that'll just make the AI bubble that much more painful when it eventually collapses. If there's a merciful God they'll build all of these white elephants in Texas.
sounds like they took the Plot out of Marvels "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and ran with it
@_maleficentgirl @ErikUden You know, a guy named George Orwell wrote a few books about it…
@_maleficentgirl @ErikUden Yup, the current big brothers seem to be much less competent;)
@_maleficentgirl @ErikUden Or the Sci-Fi series Person of Interest.
@ErikUden at first I was like no way Oracle is capable of producing anything functioning. But then I remembered that before crappy software would just not work. Now crappy AI will just make stuff up that everyone believes.
@franckraisch @ErikUden Trump's priorities!!!! 
@franckraisch @ErikUden there's no moat. Just wait for the technology to develop and copy the best. Buy the hardware at a discount.
We are already overinvesting in AI though. What we need isn't more of it, but less. What we need is a rebellion against overuse of AI
@ErikUden If there are no wormholes involved, it should not be called Stargate project
@pussreboots @ErikUden
Though a candle burns in his house, there's nobody home.
@speckmantel @amro @ErikUden This is a money grab. It will probably just be used for racial profiling and hallucinate surveillance intelligence. These guys buy into their own hype and they are unserious technologists but serious grifters.
@ErikUden I bet he'd love a society like in "Anon" 
@ErikUden No AI is needed to rid the US and the world of this idiot. Old-fashioned resistance will work, just fine.
Interesting to observe that Ketamine Boy appears not to understand that the government CREATES the money it spends on such projects.
@ErikUden Does the law has anti-power-failure provision for the camera in your home?
@ErikUden Orwell käme sich heutzutage als absoluter Anfänger vor, wenn er die Möglichkeiten sähe, die uns nun ins Haus stehen
@impooortant @mavori @ErikUden da täuscht ihr euch sie wirkt, konnte ja keiner ahnen dass es Psychopathen gibt die das geil finden...
@AnnaSaultron @impooortant @ErikUden Ich seh das eigentlich gleich. Ich denke, dass bei diesen Psychopathen supranasal einiges an kruder Fiction Literatur rumliegt.
@AnnaSaultron @impooortant @mavori @ErikUden der Nebensatz war sarkastisch gemeint oder?
@trimethylpentan
Jain, eher bitter traurig ich wünschte mir würde das Trotzlachen nicht im Halse stecken bleiben...:/
@impooortant @mavori @ErikUden
@impooortant @mavori @ErikUden das Problem mit dystopia ist, dass wohl viele das dystopia geil finden, nicht die Bekämpfung oder Verhinderung desselben.
@mavori
Selbst Orwell würde angesichts von KI, die jederzeit negativ eingesetzt werden kann und ja bereits wird, Albträume kriegen.
KI ist ein großer Fortschritt, für ihre Anwendung bedarf es internationaler Regeln.
Damit beginnt das eigentliche Problem.
@Firestarter_OL @ErikUden Das? Das ist für Anfänger. Ellison schwärmt mit Altman von einer Verknüfpung aller Kameras mit den Fähigkeiten der AI – perfekte Überwachung. Kameras? In jedem Bildschirm, jedem TV, jedem Tesla ...
@ErikUden And I'm quite certain who this system won't be investigating…
@roadriverrail @cgudrian @ErikUden PRODUCT VIOLATION
@ErikUden let's be honest... This AI project will probably not do anything, besides making rich man even richer.
@TheGymNerd @ErikUden and send innocent people to prison, because nobody bothers to double check the output.
@weddige @TheGymNerd @ErikUden of course, because the vision is to put people in prison on grounds of their opinion or them "living wrong", not because they broke the law. proof: all the criminals that escaped prison just in the last week by virtue of having the right opinion.
@TheGymNerd @ErikUden so it's a win-win situation for them
@ErikUden oh it kinda clicked for me that Apple/Google/Microsoft jamming AI down our throats is all about surveillance to understand what we're typing without file type/format or even end to end encryption mattering
very cool, I hate it here
A brave new world
@DoNotPunchDown @ErikUden … that has such people in it
@ErikUden I'm sure we could monitor the behaviour of that handful of billionair oligarchs for a lot less money than 500G, and the returns will likely be much better ...
Narrator:
"Ellison and is fellow oligarchs were sure that they alone could avoid surveillance. But what they didn't know was that they too would be watched, and their crimes recorded and delivered to the people who would become their de-facto masters."
@ErikUden @johnzajac - from Adam Curtis’ “All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace 2: I Told You The First Time”
@ErikUden Will AI monitoring prevent the rich and famous from visiting another "lolita island" or prevent another Epstein from "taking his own life" in a highly guarded cell block of a famous jail? Almost seems like someone from the 4th estate should be asking Mr. Ellison these questions.
@philpetree No. Surveillance only for conformity, not to uncover horrors conducted by the rich.
@ErikUden I’ll never forget reading George Orwell’s 1984 and thinking to myself, I can hardly wait until we are living in that kind of dystopia.
Will they release the resulting analysis though? Perhaps if they could create a "public trust score", it could be used to discriminate social benefits to only the best citizens, and people would quickly learn what a great and generous country they live in with such a wonderful, competent and benevolent leader.
@ErikUden an iron rod could help Larry Ellison forget this shit. He probably thinks it's some sort of Carnegie-style benevolent oligarchy; it isn't.
It's also far easier to just surveil the billionaires.
@ErikUden he's had these stupid fascist ideas before; right after 9/11 he was blabbering about national ID cards.
https://web.archive.org/web/20011027160301/http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47788,00.html