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Gracchus's avatar

I have long, long been skeptical that "advertising" pays the bills at big surveillance ("ad tech") companies. Skeptical that they built the infrastructure of cybernetic totalitarianism to "sell ads".

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Stegiel's avatar

There is a plan and there is of course deployment ongoing after 2020. Militarism and Silicon Valley have group sex with Money and the Black Aristocracy in the AI Feelie all day and all night.

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https://bigthink.com/the-future/military-ai-silicon-valley/

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The dominate military of the future may not be the one with the most powerful weapons but the most advanced AI. While Silicon Valley was initially standoffish with the US military, that relationship is beginning to change. Between 2022 and 2023, the US military nearly tripled its spending on AI, and it recently announced Replicator, an initiative to get AI into the field.

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