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"You’re Going to Have to Trust Us"
Is that anything like "Don't Be Evil"? (Google motto, 2004. No definition of evil followed.)
Reagan once said "Trust But Verify". So ... where can we do that at? (and who pays?)
How about no, for a change.
That is such a stupid looking face lol
Good thing they’re so trustworthy then…
You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
... yeah that's the problem, I don't :D
Out of experience, I trust neither you, your company, nor your product. Especially not with vital functions.
Never trust Faro.
My power bill has literally doubled in one year. It's largely this guy's fault.
Fuck AI.
For less than the cost of several cups of coffee a day, you too are making a difference in a billionaire’s life.
I bet Anthropic secretly sells your data anyway. I use it knowing this, at least I'm a nobody in Palantir's eyes.
All AI is for losers.
If you have to use any, like ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO for some reason, then use Deepseek. Glory to the CCP robot.
Why Deepseek?
Better to be surveilled by a foreign entity than a domestic one. Otherwise all those tax dollars going to ""defense"" are being wasted.
You can also run it independently since it's actually open (unlike OpenAI).
Maybe rent cloud compute locally for low latency if you don't have enough RAM sticks to feed the AI with?
Fuck all billionaires.
[REDACTED] all billionaires.
No more billionaires
I don't know why anyone would question why a psychopath with too much money would lie. I mean, c'mon everyone. What does he have to gain?!
I wish he'd eat a homeless man's ass.
We need a monthly AI generated report. Instead of Executice Summary at the top, it gives a Casualties and Surveillance Summary.
You know the one thing I never see mentioned?
These systems were trained on 4Chan, Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter posts and comments. They weren't trained on military communication, guidelines, etc.
They know more about Call of Duty than they know about actual warfare. What the fuck do you think they're gonna recommend?
These systems were trained on 4Chan, Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter posts and comments. They weren’t trained on military communication, guidelines, etc.
They know more about Call of Duty than they know about actual warfare. What the fuck do you think they’re gonna recommend?
Honestly, this applies to the entire DOW under Hegseth. The fact that we even have to use a term like "double tap" to describe genocide and war crimes committed by the U.S. and have Marco Rubio tweeting about it with fucking emojis is so fucking disgusting and shameful, but also part of the propaganda they're relying on to sell this back to their base.
It down plays the seriousness of the entire situation, and makes naive people feel much safer than they should. Almost like a stranger in a van offering candy to kids, so that by the time they realize they're in danger it's too late.
Propaganda aside and more to the point of why it's so dangerous, you might find this article posted a while back interesting. You're absolutely right, and the point should really be brought up all the time, but it never is.
We've always know war is good business. If you can create eternal war, you never have to worry about peacetime getting in the way of your profits.
Private Tech Companies, the State, and the New Character of War https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/12/ukraine-war-tech-companies
Mass surveillance and social media now generate huge amounts of data during war. At the same time, the widespread availability of the smartphone means civilians carry around advanced sensors that can broadcast data more quickly than the armed forces themselves.4 This enables civilians to provide intelligence to the armed forces in ways that were not previously possible.5 Matthew Ford and Andrew Hoskins label this a “new war ecology” that is “weaponizing our attention and making everyone a participant in wars without end . . . [by] collapsing the distinctions between audience and actor, soldier and civilian, media and weapon.”6 In this ecology, warfare is participatory. Social media platforms such as TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), and Telegram are no longer merely tools for consuming war reportage; militaries accessing and processing open-source data from these platforms shapes the battlespace in real time by contributing to wider situational awareness.
As a result of their work in Ukraine, a slew of companies like Palantir have drawn media attention.9 While commercial interests have rarely aligned neatly with geopolitics, circumstances are changing; private technology firms increasingly occupy, manage, and in some cases dominate the digital infrastructure upon which militaries now rely. States themselves have fostered this shift through selective deregulation and outsourcing of technology development. These dynamics are visible in the war in Ukraine and in the wider geopolitical contest over the global digital stack. As we argued in “Virtual Sovereignty,” a paper we published in International Affairs, this influence has major geopolitical consequences for how states use power.
What is at stake, beyond the conflict itself, is the nature of state sovereignty. The ability of states to govern, defend, and act independently is increasingly mediated by private technology firms and global finance. This is not entirely new. States have long relied on private contractors, but the kind of dependency has changed. Unlike traditional arms manufacturers, today’s defense-tech firms control the digital platforms, data flows, and algorithmic systems that underpin military decisionmaking. At the same time, civilian platforms like Telegram and TikTok shape the informational terrain of conflict, influencing how wars are perceived and fought.
AI slop.
Analysis complete...
Iran strategy: nuke from orbit. Fuck his mom. Teabag the corpse.

I'm no AI, so take this with a grain of salt, but my own facial recognition training tells me that's not the facial expression of somebody who makes a habit of being very open and honest
I haven't seen a single picture of this guy where he doesn't look like a completely deranged fuck.
Yeah there’s a reason Anthropic was founded by basically the entire OpenAI research team in one go, I can’t imagine working under this guy
Can you give them their next 85 billion infusion of cash? No? Just gonna have to trust them then.
I trust Sam Altman less than I trust what random internet advertisements say.
I trust him less than I trust Temu ads.
Hey, but the deal is expired in 11 hours, are you gonna buy it for the lowest price in the universe? By the way, only one item (on the planet) left, hurry up plz.
Maybe he's telling the truth and by "prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems,” he means human responsibility is strictly prohibited.

Anyone care to join me for a belt of whiskey?
the secret 9 out of 10 doctors want you to know is there are untrustworthy Sam Altman in your area!

I hadn't noticed how closely Altman resembles Phelps until the side by side in this thread
There are few people I trust less than Sam Altman.
Trust me bro, just one more data center, bro, I swear, just one more trillion dollar contract and we'll fix everything, bro please, just a little killing bro, it'll be fine, trust me.
The Pentagon “agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.”
Okay so when the Pentagon inevitably violates the agreement, you'll walk away from your likely multi-hundred-million dollar military contract and accept being blackballed the same way Anthropic was?
Yeah, I don't think so.
They're bankrupt, so no. This is desperation at it's finest
Altman is a well known liar. He was even fired by the board of OpenAI for lying to them previously.
Yeah, let's trust the dude who molested his sister.
No, I don't think I will.
Yeah, should have been "Trust us...or not. Doesn't matter, we'll do what we want regardless."
This is our new future, the face of a mass murderer, the face of indifference.
Altman has lied numerous times in his professional career. If anyone believes him they’ll get exactly what they deserve.
Most people would be surprised if he was transparently honest at any point in his professional career. It's all spin and lies.
HAHAHAHAHAHAfuck you.
I trust that they will aid in extrajudicial surveillance and autonomous killings.
How ‘bout NO