Palantir benefits from the AI gold rush.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18985984

Palantir, the company named for the dangerous seeing-stones that tended to mislead their users, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver services for classified networks in US defense and intelligence agencies.

“This is a first-of-its-kind, integrated suite of technology that will allow critical national security missions to operationalize Microsoft’s best-in-class large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir’s AI Platforms (AIP) in Microsoft’s government and classified cloud environments,” the announcement says.

Palantir is a data-analysis company that sucks down huge amounts of personal data to assist governments and companies with surveillance. It is somewhat unclear from the text of the announcement what services Palantir and Microsoft will offer. What we do know is that Microsoft’s Azure cloud services will integrate Palantir products. Previously, Azure incorporated OpenAI’s Chat-GPT4 into a “top secret” version of its software.

  • nyahlathotepEnglish
    541·
    3 months ago

    It’s great when dystopic defense contractors take names from the things I love! Palmer Luckey started one called Anduril, and I just can’t tell you how much I love these fucking shits co-opting Tolkien’s words in their endeavors to profit on oppression and murder.

    • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      Tolkien estate usually doesn’t like their words used in random stuff. Sometimes I think they’re bordering on control freaks, but in that particular case, yeah, nuking that shit and forcing them to change their name wouldn’t seem unreasonable to me.

      If they’re not aware of it, maybe someone should tip them.

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    242·
    3 months ago

    Government officials testing the AI:

    Will there be a mass protest?

    Calculating…

    The government will fall and all members will be exiled within 7 years unless following policies are implemented: policies.doc

    How about we ignore those policies. Give me a list of the trouble makers so we can start them

    Calculating…

    The list of most likely suspects can be found here: suspects.doc

    Calculating…

    Mass protests will now erupt in 3 years and ask members of government executed.

    Hmmm. And if we just mislead them so they won’t go after us?

    Calculating…

    Due to massive misinformation, foreign parties can co-opt this system, causing civil war in 8 years and splitting up of the country, with parts de facto ruled by foreign entities. See map.doc

    Calculating…

    Wealth redistribution recommended. See policies.doc

    “Palantir customer service? Yes, I think your doohickey is broken.”

    • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      Palantir is Theil owned. It’s is never, ever going to recommend wealth redistribution.

    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      It’s also really annoying that they’ve taken names from LotR (e.g. Palantir, Narya), a story about fighting the ultimate authoritarian evil.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    3 months ago

    Fuck Palantir, that Wannabe Sauron Peter Thiel needs to fuck off of Middle Earth.