• wuffah@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Some memorable quotes:

    Speaking to Sean Hannity, Patel claimed that artificial intelligence was never used at the FBI until the second Trump administration.

    Patel added: “What’s the point of collecting terabytes of data if you can’t sift through it?”​

    “I’ve got every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI, rebuilding our internet capabilities, our classified systems, and the ability for artificial intelligence to be in our counterterrorism program so we can get instantaneous results,” he said.

    ​“The former FBI rejected that notion because they knew…that wasn’t their focus,” he said, referring to the implementation of A.I.

    This guy must be half-blind from slapping back his entire supply of cheap bourbon because he can’t see a single red flag in any of these statements. I realize a fascist techno-dystopia has been the plan all along, but even after the last 10 years the hubris still astonishes me.

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      4 hours ago

      collecting terabytes of data

      Also, fwiw, this is probably off by about 7 or 8 orders of magnitude.

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      When I watched Brasil way back when, I wondered how society could slip into such a nonsensical distopia .

      I’m guessing this is a pretty good step in that direction.

    • etherphon@piefed.world
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      11 hours ago

      This is such a security nightmare I can’t even begin to comprehend it, bad ideas on so many levels that he’s hit a glitch screen.