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Cool, cool cool cool. Nothing dystopian about that at all.
What's stopping them from lying about this? They lie about literally everything, why should anyone believe them about anything at all?
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You don't need AI for this, just a ton of money for storage and either tolerance for a slow query (like 15-20 minutes) or an engineer who knows what they're doing in search.
Palantir is an evil company.
This was pretty evident the second they named their company over the tool used by The Dark Lord Sauron and Saruman to spy on the actions of others from Lord of the Rings.
Yup, data archival. Now imagine this future: right now, encrypted data transfers may be wire-tapped and stored. When quantum computers are available, all that traffic will be decryptable. This includes pretty much all general HTTPS traffic since TLS mostly uses ECDHE for key exchange which isn't quantum secure.
I bet nation state actors are recording everything they can.
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Once upon a time, we understood that "putting something online" meant releasing it to the public in perpetuity. Any claim otherwise was gaslighting.
Facebook, et al, have somehow managed to convince people that privacy is something you can get back after they've coerced you to give it up.
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Hot. Hot, hot, hot.
Convinced we somehow ended up in the darkest timeline.
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Anything ever posted online can be archived and searched later. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to cross reference publicly available sources along with subpoenaed data.
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The real enemy inside is the government, not the people.
People need to keep their government under more surveillance than the government does its people.
What I find more concerning is, how did they get his reddit username?
The obvious strong link is reddit+email. Someone could have got into his personal, probably old mailbox, where original registration letters (with r/handle) and notifications still are. I find it more probable, but since government is under MAGA, they could've used some way to ask Huffman if some account matches the mail address.
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Lmao. Waybackmachine
Edit: woops, other guy said it.
Don't you guys have NSA? Just have a contact there and...
At one point it was possible to download every reddit comment ever. I think it was around 10 years ago I had a copy of that. I can't remember if it was from reddit directly or from some third party with scrapers. I recall the dataset being free... but it might have been free for me because I had an academic justification? Really don't recall.
Anyways, point being that you're delusional if you think anything you post online ever goes away. Secondly, you can be much less than palentir and have "deleted reddit account comments". Anyone can get them.
That’s not Palantir doing it. If you put the data in a MariaDB, you can access it, too. Is not MariaDB the culprit, or the one distributing the data?
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