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We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI - AI Summary, Mind Map & Transcript | GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy | YouTubeToText
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Nvidia's strategic partnership with Palantir signifies a significant shift from consumer technology to powering advanced surveillance and military applications, raising concerns about the acceleration of AI-driven control and the erosion of privacy and civil liberties.
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Nvidia sells entertainment and video
gaming to consumers, and they sell
weapons and surveillance to governments.
Just this year, Nvidia vastly increased
its lobbying efforts by over $3 million.
It spent millions with the current US
administration, including a $10 million
donation to the White House ballroom, [music]
[music]
$1 million to the inauguration, and
more. Nvidia also partnered with the US
government's favorite AI military mass
surveillance software company,
Palunteer. That's in spite of the fact
that those two companies were arguing
about China just weeks before because
Nvidia will work with anybody when the
money is good.
>> Palanteer is going to integrate Nvidia
so that we could process at the speed of
light in an extraordinary scale.
>> If you're not familiar with Palunteer,
here's everything you need to know.
>> Our product is used on occasion to kill people.
people.
>> And safe means that the other person is scared.
scared.
>> Palanteer was co-founded by Peter Teal,
part of what's known as the PayPal mafia
of the past. and he's also a
multi-billionaire who thinks freedom and
democracy are incompatible. Palanter's
other co-founder and current CEO is Alex
Karp, seen here after shoving a fork
into an outlet. And his mindset appeals
to angsty teenagers.
>> I don't think in win lose, I think in domination.
domination.
>> Palanteer is known for being the
purveyor of mass surveillance and its
corresponding fuckups like its system
helping law enforcement detain the wrong
people based on faulty data and enabling
rogue employees to spy on co-workers.
Meanwhile, the US government is relaxing
AI regulations to rush through more data
center construction. Recently, President
Trump posted that quote, "There must be
only one rulebook with some weird
capitalization that seems like a one
ring to rule them all thing if we are
going to continue to lead an AI. We are
beating all countries at this point in
the race," he said. But that won't last
long if we are going to have 50 states,
which is it. What What do you mean? What
do you mean if we're going to have 50
states? Quote continues, "Many of them
bad actors." End quote. before later
saying that quote, "You can't expect a
company to get 50 approvals every time
they want to do something." End quote.
We can see why Jensen likes him so much,
leaving no opportunity unmonetized.
Nvidia and Palanteer are increasing the
speed at which AI data centers are built
on the US's already strained power grid,
which is predicted to increase energy
bills and electricity blackouts across
the country. to better understand what
it is Jensen Juan and Nvidia are so
excited to partner with. We're first
digging into Palunteer and then later in
this video, we'll go through the
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Now back to it. On October 28th, Nvidia
held a rare Washington DCbased GTC
keynote where Nvidia announced its
partnership with controversial data
mining and war profitering company
Palunteer whose CEO in the past has said
things like this.
>> Bad times are very good for Palanteer.
>> As for Nvidia, this was their announcement.
announcement.
>> I have a second announcement. This is
the single fastest enterprise [music]
company in the world.
Probably the single most important
enterprise stack in the world today.
[music] Palanteer Ontology.
>> With that announcement, Nvidia
officially went from powering
firstperson shooter video games to powering
powering
real person shooters. Palanteer has
historically run its platforms on cloud
providers like AWS and Azure, but it's
now integrating Nvidia's computing stack
to bolster performance. As Jensen Juan
put it,
>> Palanteer is going to integrate Nvidia
so that we could process at the speed of
light and at extraordinary scale. In
addition to Nvidia's hardware, Palanteer
will adopt Nvidia's CUDA X libraries and
Neotron models into its AI framework.
We'll start with the most obvious but
most difficult question about Palanteer,
which is
what the [ __ ] is it? Palanteer got its
name from the Palanteeri, which are the
all powerful scene stones from Lord of
the Rings that allow users to see far
and wide. The not not not that one. The
There we go. That's the right one. The
stones are the very ones that Dark Lord
Sauron used to corrupt Saurroman with.
So, you know, they they named their
company after that. Great start.
Probably should have read the book a
little more. For those unfamiliar with
Palanteer, the company started in
Silicon Valley in 2003 before relocating
to Denver, Colorado. It started with a
self-described mission of quote building
datadriven operations and
decision-making [music] software. Here's
a behind-the-scenes look at one of the
company's old advertisements.
>> The future of information systems and
robotics, the future of national defense,
defense,
Cyberine System.
>> I I I don't know how that got in there.
Early on, Palanteer worked with and was
backed by the CIA. But Palanteer
eventually branched out to work with the
FBI, ICE, and the DoD. And then when it
got bored of having partners with only
three letters and wanted more, it worked
with state and local law enforcement.
The DoD previously awarded Palanteer a
$10 billion contract in August. The DoD
said it received just one bid for the
$10 billion contract. In an attempt to
fight the baddies or something,
Palanteer created its Gotham platform,
which the company says offers AIdriven
combat superiority. If you want to think
of Palanteer as the analog to Cyberdine,
then Gotham could be thought of as its
skynet without the artificial
intelligence capabilities being AI
sensient for now at least. Gotham
compiles data from sensors, cameras, and
reports and can give users recommended
courses of action through a chat GBT
style chat box. You watch a snippet from
this video to see it in action.
Satellites in orbit high above the Earth
can look through any window in any
building in any city anywhere in the world.
world.
>> Wait, sorry, that's that's Cyber Dying
again from Terminator. Here's the right
one this time.
>> We start with a military operator
responsible for monitoring activity
within Eastern Europe. They've just
received an alert that military
equipment is amassed in a field 30
[music] km from friendly forces. AIP
leverages large language models to allow
operators to quickly ask questions.
Show me more details.
They ask what enemy units are in the
region and leverage [music] AI to build
out a likely unit formation.
What enemy military unit is in [music]
the region?
>> This RTS looking interface leverages
so-called AI to identify and destroy
things. If you haven't been following
the news, AI detection has already been
used by law enforcement to wrongfully
arrest people after facial recognition
tools wrongfully matched people's faces
with prior perpetrators. These aren't
always Palanteer, but this is a thing
that's getting widespread. So, applying
this to dropping bombs from the sky via
Palanteer is the next obvious natural
progression. The tool provides a bird's
eyee example of what a battlefield
scenario might look like. And
Palanteer's video provides a specific
example of how an operator can use
Gotham to tell a drone to fly over to a
specific region to gather more footage
of potential hidden hostiles or just
kill them.
>> Task the MQ9 to capture video of this location.
Look, we're actually not using these
clips just to be funny anymore. This
whole thing sounds eerily similar to
Skynet's advertisements in Terminator.
>> Skynet can react instantly with anything
from a strategic [music] air strike
using a single drone to the deployment
of 10 armored divisions or the Sixth
Fleet. The company named its platform
Gotham because we guess it sees the
world as a crimeridden hell hole riddled
with super villains that need to be
stopped. In that capacity, at least
they're right. The world is a
crimeridden hell hole riddled with super
villains. It's just the super villains
here are the ones with the AI grift who
are widening the divide between normal
people and the trillionaires who benefit
from all of this technology. The name
Gotham is also probably heavily inspired
by this specific scene from The Dark
Knight in which Batman invents a
controversial highfrequency generator
that uses smartphones to spy on the
denisens of Gotham. The movie basically
alluded to its existence as a necessary
evil. We guess Palanteer leaned into the
evil part by naming its spying system
Gotham. At least in the movie though,
there's a kill switch and Lucius Fox
ends up shutting it down. Now, killing
people isn't the only thing that
Palanteer does. Palanteer has also
seeped its way into non-defense sectors
of the government like the IRS or some
of the federal public health agencies.
It eventually went public in 2020 and
transitioned to work with private
enterprises. The company created
Palanteer Foundry which as described as
the quote operating system for the
modern enterprise end quote like Gotham
but applied to enterprise. Palanteer
Foundry was basically specified to help
companies increase productivity from the
data that they've harvested and mined or
just gathered from the course of doing
business. and Palanteer is now used in a
wide variety of industries that include
finance, healthcare, manufacturing,
military, and more. The company now
reportedly serves over 150 countries and
has offices across North America,
Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and
Australia. Beyond country borders and
governments, Palanteer has numerous
enterprise customers. Envzone reported
that Fiat Chrysler has used Palanteer to
identify faulty car parts. Airbus, they
say, has used Palanteer to address
manufacturing issues and BP has used it
to increase oil production. Other
high-profile customers include Walmart
and Wendy's. Now, personally, I'm
looking forward to when Wendy can not
only bomb your intestines from within,
but also bomb your vehicle from orbit
because you didn't go through the
drive-thru fast enough. At GTC, Nvidia
CEO Jensen Juan showcased how Lowe's was
using Palanteer to optimize its business
decisions. The retailer has purportedly
created a digital replica of its global
supply chain, and Nvidia cited how its
partnership with Palanteer could help
the home improvement chain pivot its
shipping logistics whenever things like
unpredictable weather may cause
international shipping delays. But
Jensen didn't cover all of the use cases
that Lowe's has for AI. And you should
know about some of the other use cases
for AI that companies like Lowe's
deploy. Now look, Flock is a different
company from Palunteer, but they're all
kind of doing similar things, which is
building out AI, facial recognition, and
people profiling solutions that we think
you should be concerned about. So, let's
take a closer look at some of these
other examples of concerns with AI and
corporate overreach. Home Depot and
Lowe's have both used Flock security
cameras and plate readers, and they
share that data with the police. 404
media reported, quote, "The sheriff's
office is able to tap into flock license
plate reading cameras at 173 different
Lowe's locations around the US." End
quote. And that the Flock cameras,
quote, constantly scan the license
plates of cars that drive by. Because
there are Flock cameras around the
country, Flock often has a snapshot of
people's movements, which police can
search, typically without a warrant."
End quote. That's right. These systems,
like the one we showed at the beginning
of this video, can build a profile on
you. They can look at things like the
bumper stickers on your car and start to
figure out what ideologies you might
associate with. Maybe you have a band
that's somewhat political as a bumper
sticker on the car. It could also though
look at where you go, who you associate
with, the vehicles of your friends, your
friends, the associates who are nearby,
people who are just in the frame who
might not be good people but you happen
to be next to. It could also in theory
look at whether you go to a church, a
mosque, a synagogue, or none of them at
all and determine what kind of religious
background you might have or lack of it.
Further, these could look at if you've
attended any protests or perhaps
wrongfully associate you with some kind
of crime like a break-in or maybe
associate you with a riot simply for
walking near while it happened. While
Nvidia talks about optimizing the
workflow of something like the Lowe's
warehouse for shipping logistics, the
real AI use of these department stores
now also includes tracking and
profiling. Less sinister or maybe not.
They can also use this technology to
look at how long you linger in front of
a store shelf before deciding not to buy
the thing you're looking at and then
later shovel ads of that thing in front
of you until you finally cave and
decide, you know what, I actually did
want that when I saw it in the store.
About a week ago, in front of this
suspected ICE field office, there were
two camera surveillance towers that look
sort of like this. These surveillance
towers include license plate readers.
So, when I drove away from it, it tagged
my car and then it'll add it to a
profile that exists for everywhere else
I've driven with one of these security
apparati. Private companies can use this
information to track movements of people
around town in their car. And you could
see situations where it might be useful
to apply parallel construction to put
somebody in proximity to a manufactured
scandal of some kind. For this modern
surveillance is part of a new concerning
trend which is the idea of a pre-rime
apparatus where law enforcement are now
taking information that is supposed to
be predictive of a crime that might
happen [music] to then act on it and in
theory prevent it if it were ever going
to happen. like some kind of weird
minority report type of situation.
[music] This could be used against
anybody where for the right price,
especially if you run a large company,
[music] you might have access to data
like this that profile someone
everywhere they've ever been, everywhere
their car has ever been monitored,
what's on the back of their car, what
those bumper stickers might tell you
about their associations or their
political beliefs or otherwise. All of
that is for sale. It's not only for use
by governments, but is being funneled
through private [music] companies that
are fueling the AI bubble as we know it.
Now, the particular towers that we saw
recently were in front of a suspected
ICE detention facility in North
Carolina. And this branch was recently
accused of throwing a US citizen into a
van and driving away with him before
later dumping him on the side of the
road to walk back to his work site. So
at this point it does feel like a real
dystopian Skynet is among us and it's
being accelerated by Nvidia which more
than ever is targeting and appealing to
governments rather than basically anyone
else. But let's talk about some of the
monetary impacts following the
announcement between Nvidia and
Palanteer. Both companies stock rose by
over 7% and Nvidia became the first
company to hit a >> [music]
>> [music]
>> $5 trillion market cap. Considering
Nvidia became the first company to hit a
$4 trillion market cap just a few months
prior back in July, the bubble is
brewing quickly. The news that Nvidia
and Palanteer became fast partners came
as a little bit of a surprise because
Palanteer chief technology officer
Cheyam Sanker recently penned an opinion
piece on October 17th just 11 days
before the GTC keynote announcement. It
was published in the Wall Street Journal
with a page that reads, quote, "Jensen
Juan is wrong about China." End quote.
In it, the CTO talks about the tensions
between the United States and China and
wrote quote, "Mr. Juan says sub quote
doesn't have to be all us or them. It
could be us and them." And sub quote and
end quote. Sanker asserted that this
wasn't possible. And he continued,
quote, "The Communist Party believes
China and the US are locked in a great
struggle for mastery. In this worldview,
it isn't enough for China to rise. The
US must fall." End quote. One
interesting thing to note regarding this
story is that the title of this opinion
piece was changed and softened from
Jensen Juan is wrong about China to why
the China doves are wrong. That change
was made after the announcement of the
new relationship between Palanteer and
Nvidia from what we could find. Whatever
the reason, we don't think it's a good
look to softly and retroactively modify
this post partnership. Palanteer isn't a
company that's afraid to be
confrontational or controversial. It's
posted advertisements across college
campuses that read, quote, "A moment of
reckoning has arrived for the West. Our
culture has fallen into shallow
consumerism while abandoning national
purpose." On the factory floor, in the
operating room, across the battlefield,
we build to dominate end quote. CEO Alex
Karp has even referred to themselves as
quote heretics in a letter sent to
shareholders. So, he's a man who clearly
has a need to feel tough whenever he
talks at least. And this takes us to our
next topic, which [music] is Palanteer's
leadership. Peter Teal is credited with
the concept and with the seed funding
for this company. For those unfamiliar
with the billionaire venture capitalist,
Teal is one of the co-founders of
PayPal, making him a member of the
PayPal mafia, as it's called, which
represents a group of investors who have
successfully invested in a variety of
Silicon Valley startups. Teal is
sometimes considered the dawn of the
group, and is extremely wellconed in the
industry, as shown in this chart by
Dorothy Gamble. He's gone on record to
say some controversial stuff like quote,
"I no longer believe that freedom and
democracy are compatible." End quote.
These really aren't the words you want
to hear from the creator of a company
that facilitates mass surveillance,
seeing as he's saying freedom's not
compatible with democracy, so you're
just not going to have it. I guess also
death. They they facilitate that, too.
Speaking of death, he also famously
paused for an extremely awkward and
uncomfortable amount of time in this interview.
interview.
>> You would prefer the human race to
endure, right? Uh,
Uh,
>> you're hesitant.
>> Well, I Yes.
>> I don't know. I I would
>> I would um
>> This is a long hesitation. So many longesitation.
longesitation.
>> There's so many questions and
>> should the human race survive?
>> Uh, Tal is also oddly obsessed with his
belief of an antichrist. With something
as potentially dangerous as AI, we think
it is a good thing actually to have
guard rails put in place and protection
mechanisms. In fact, even Elon Musk,
another fellow member of the PayPal
mafia, has had some strong beliefs in
having guard rails, at least prior to
his exi endeavor.
>> Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous
than nukes. Far. So why do we have no
regulatory oversight? This is insane.
>> But Teal has likened tech regulations to
empowering a supposed antichrist. He's
been quoted as saying, quote, "In the
21st century, the antichrist is a lite
who wants to stop all science." End
quote. before relating that to someone
like Greta Thurberg. He's also a
chairman of the board for Palunteer and
he's a stockholder. I'm going to be real
with you. It's real [ __ ] weird to
continually say the word Antichrist in
one of these videos and it's like
actually relevant, not a joke. Let's
move on and instead talk about this
other guy, Palanteer's CEO and man
caught in a hurricane, Alex Karp. To his
credit, Karp has acknowledged the risks
that AI poses and told CNBC, quote, "My
general bias on AI is it's dangerous."
End quote. But like Palanteer's CTO
Sanker, he also amplified the divide
between China and the US and added
quote, "Either we win or China will
win." End quote. And again, this is the
company that just partnered with Nvidia.
So, they do still have some differing
beliefs because Nvidia has been trying
to keep all the glue together that holds
together its sales for both the US and
for China cuz that's how Nvidia makes
the most money. Regardless of whether or
not you believe the either we win or
China will quote from Alex Karp here, it
is certainly beneficial for Palanteer's
bottom line for the US government to
believe that quote. And a tactfully
applied boogeyman can be found in just
about every country's rhetoric in the
world. When asked about what concerns AI
might pose, Karp told Axios,
>> "No decision is without risk and the
risk we have to absorb here is going
long on this because it's not like we're
not doing this in a vacuum. We are going
to be the dominant player or China's
going to be the dominant player."
>> Addressing privacy concerns, the
Palanteer CEO deflected criticism with a
false dichotomy and added this. So, it's
like when people are worried about
surveillance, it's not honestly, of
course, there's there are huge dangers
there, but you know, uh it's like you
will have far fewer rights if we're if
America is not in the lead.
>> In other words, the logic here is spy on
Americans now before China beats us to
it. You can't lose your rights in the
future if you lose them now instead.
Rejecting concerns that society might be
heading too fast into AI, the Palunteer
CEO told BBC Radio, quote, "Many of the
people asking for a pause on AI are
asking for a pause because they have no
product." End quote. We imagine that
after that, he added this.
>> They hate us cuz they ain't us.
>> Seth Roen's reply seems weirdly fitting
here. Also,
>> it is.
>> No, it's not. They hate us cuz we is us
and what we is doing is [ __ ]
terrible. It's not exactly some kind of
brilliant beerite statement to say that
people who don't have a stake in
something that is irresponsible and
generates lots of money would be the
ones asking for it to slow down. For
example, dumping pollutants into lakes
and rivers because that's the cheap
thing to do. Probably the other people
drinking that water would say, "Hey,
maybe we should put a pause on this for
a minute." The statements like Karps
that only losers want to pause AI make
more sense when you hear Karp saying
halfbaked things like
>> if you've done something big and
important, you've probably a good person.
person.
>> You can tell that to the likes of people
like, I don't know, Sam Bankman Freed,
Martin Skrey, Pablo Escobar, and uh
well, I guess we could go down the route
of Godwin's law of internet discourse,
too. But again, statements like these
might make sense when you define safety as
as
>> and safe means that the other person is
scared. That's how you make someone
safe. When Karp was speaking about the
benefits of scare tactics while on
Fox, Karp stated,
>> "If you want to have peace in the world,
that's how you do it."
>> Thanks [music] to Cyber Knife Systems
and Skynet, "Our children will grow up
in a world free of fear."
>> Addressing Palunteer detractors while
boasting about the company's rising
stock, Karp stated on Fox Business,
>> "And to all supporters of Palunteer,
merry Christmas and a happy New Year's.
And to all people who've hated on us,
enjoy your cult."
>> I will. Thanks. You, too. Now, if you're
thinking that Nvidia's partnership with
Palanteer might only extend to the
enterprise optimization part, the
workflows, the digital twins, and not to
the war machine part, then think again
because Jensen Juan said this, "We work
with Palanteer to accelerate everything
Palanteer does." So that we could do
data processing data processing at a
much much larger scale and more speed
whether it's structured data of the past
and of course we'll have structured data
human recorded data unstructured data
and process that data for our government
for national security and for
enterprises around the world process
that data at speed of light and to find
insight from it. this is what it's going
to look like in the future.
>> And as if to leave no ambiguity on the
subject, Jensen later told Joe Rogan this.
this.
>> Well, I'm I'm happy that that uh our
military is going to use AI technology
for defense. I'm happy to hear that. I'm
happy to see um all these tech startups
now channeling their technology
capabilities towards defense and
military applications. I think you need
to do that.
>> The only thing that was missing was his
patented Captain America outfit when he
said it.
Wait for it.
Now, if we got distracted by these
arguments and talking points, you might
say that a lot of people could contest
that American prosperity and economic
security would be best secured by
ensuring that Americans have access to
things they need to economically secure
themselves, like better healthcare or
something, rather than funneling all
that money into the military. Speaking
to Rogan, Jensen stated,
>> "I think I'm happy that we're making it
so more socially acceptable."
You know, there was a time where [music]
when somebody wanted to channel their
technology capability and their
intellect into defense technology, uh,
somehow they're vilified.
>> Yeah, I don't get it either, Jensen. I
mean, it's just us right now. Like,
look, how are you going to vilify people
who develop discriminatory killing
machines? I mean, we got to leave room
for the people who develop the
indiscriminate killing machines, too. Am
I right? I mean, the people doing the
vilifying should be killed. I mean, the
the AI should kill. I mean, more
recently, Nvidia and Palanteer have
partnered up to create Chain Reaction,
which Palunteer describes as an
operating system for American AI
infrastructure. End quote. It's designed
to accelerate the construction and
powering of AI data centers in the US,
which are already straining the power
grid, and whose generators are linked
with the rise in local diagnoses of
things like chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease or COPD. According to
federal regulators, the explosion of AI
data center demand has already pushed US
electricity usage so high that parts of
the country now face heightened blackout
risks in the winter. Peak demand jumped
by roughly 20 gawatt in a single year,
and the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation warned that
extreme cold could trigger supply
shortages across the country. To put
that 20 gawatt peak jump into
perspective, the largest nuclear power
plant in the United States produces
about 4 and a.5 gawatts of power. Nvidia
bolstering the rise of Palanteer is
concerning for a number of reasons. Some
of them easier, like when it CEO says
things like this.
>> Palanteer is here to disrupt and make
our the institutions we partner with the
very best in the world. And when it's
necessary to scare our enemies and on
occasion kill them. When it's not
killing people, Palanteer says it values
your privacy. Palanteer wrote, quote,
"We treat privacy as a first order
concern at every stage of the
engineering process and build privacy
features as core capabilities in our
platforms, seamlessly integrated with
analytical and collaboration tools." End
quote. But what the company says and
what it does, a big surprise to all of
you, it doesn't always align. In a
peer-reviewed article titled the seere
and the scene surveying Palanteer's
surveillance platform end quote authors
Andrew Iliadis and Amelia Aker wrote
quote while Palanteer attempts to
distance itself publicly from the image
of a global tech firm that facilitates
the modeling of data where civil
liberties and human rights might be at
stake. The patents show that such
processes were imagined, designed and
implemented as far back as 2006.
Healthcare, security, immigration,
social media, and financial data
collection, sorting, and modeling for
preemptive decision-making are all
described. Just want to draw your
attention to one really specific word in
there, which is preemptive.
That's going to matter here. That genie
is never getting put back in the bottle.
The Palanteer Surveillance article added
that the company uses quote data
gathering, labeling, and modeling end
quote to engage in quote facial
recognition, predictive policing,
workplace surveillance, and social media
mining end quote. Predictive policing.
That sounds familiar.
I'm placing you under [snorts] arrest
for the future murder of Sarah Mars.
>> Let's not kid ourselves. We are
arresting individuals who have broken no law.
law.
>> But they will. The commission of the
crime itself is absolute metaphysics.
The precogs see the future and they're
never wrong.
>> But it's not just minority report in a
movie anymore. Precogs exist. They're
already here and they're already
wrongfully condemning people of crimes.
So, uh, very very peculiar. Peppermill
has this pretty sophisticated, uh,
artificial intelligence software that
analyzes faces of previous trespassers.
And they did a 100% match on this guy
who whenever they trespassed before
presented an ID that had a different
name. They looked like the same exact
guy. This body cam footage processed by
EWU Body Cam and uploaded to YouTube
covers over the course of 17 minutes how
police sided with a Las Vegas casino's
AI facial recognition software to arrest
a man after matching a prior trespasser
who was logged in this facial
recognition system. This is despite the
fact that the wrongfully arrested man's
height, eye color, and age were
different from the prior trespasser. He
had a legitimate driver's license that
came back in dispatch with a real name
that was different from the one who was
flagged. He had credit cards and payubs
matching those names. And again, there
were demographic differences like in
age. So precognitive arrests, pre-rime
arrests have already been happening and
they've already been wrong this early in
the process. It's only a matter of time
before that escalates. to just draw the
picture fully. You could see a scenario
where a false positive might match
someone who's a wanted gunman or a known
murderer or something which would
associate them with a deadly weapon. You
could then see a situation where police
or security of some kind might respond
with weapons drawn rather than not over
what ended up being a false positive in
this situation. Someone could die
because of that. The only difference is
that instead of precognitive
people who are reading the fabric of our
consciousness in a movie with Tom Cruz,
this is an AI system that uses the same
shitty type of software that powered
this thing. Come on you guys, let's wrap
up. Let's go.
Don't be afraid. Come here, Green. Hurry up.
>> What are you saying?
>> No, it's not time to eat.
I'll give I'll give you a snack in a
moment. Let me finish up real quick.
>> Come on, Green. Hurry up. Stop wasting time.
five things. And
>> Palanteer also leans into the Minority
Report style ethos with its ad
campaigns. And in the very least, we
think Cyberdine Systems should sue
Palanteer for damn near perfect
>> Targeting the bad guys before they can
target you. Speaking of Minority Report,
two federal lawsuits indicate that at
least two immigrants were erroneously
detained for deportation by ICE in
Chicago, which Bloomberg, which will
probably precognitively copyright strike
this video, reports were likely enabled
by inaccurate information funneled
through Palanteer systems. The company's
tools excel at centralizing surveillance
data while using AI to focus on
requested intel, like a laser beam.
taking a page out of the book 1984.
1984.
Orwell would be so well, I don't know if
he would be proud or not.
Let's go with terrified. The LAPD used
Gotham in a program called Operation
Laser, which according to Bloomberg
compiled quote rap sheets, parole
reports, police interviews, and other
sources and quote on wouldbe criminals
and shared them with local law
enforcement to try and quote stop the
pre-rime suspects as often as possible.
End quote. Pre-rime suspects.
Pre crime suspects.
suspects.
It's not how those words work. All
right. So, these thought police, sorry,
law enforcement officers would
reportedly use excuses like jaywalking
or fix it tickets to intervene. This is
often referred to as parallel
construction or evidentiary laundering,
a concept wherein law enforcement has
some kind of evidence potentially
acquired illegally and in a way which
would not be admissible in court and
then launderers it through other
reasonable suspicions like a broken tail
light on a car or a flock or maybe saw
people with a known past of drug dealing
getting in even if they weren't actively
doing something wrong. Slippery slope
type arguments don't seem like a fallacy
in this situation and so-called pre-rime
surveillance. It does seem to be on the
rise and we do think it can be abused.
For its part, however, Palanteer has
denied any association with pre-rime.
Palanteer asked Palunteer on Palunteer's
blog, quote, "Does Palanteer enable
predictive policing?" End quote. Twitch
Palanteer answered Palunteer, saying,
quote, "No. Palanteer does not provide
predictive policing tools, nor do we
support any predictive policing
workflows." End quote. It then wrote
that it is used by police including for
operational purposes and for
investigations which it says are made
more efficient with Palanteer software.
Palanteer even actually referenced
Minority Report when writing about the
EU AI act which Palanteer summarized as
disallowing prediction of criminal
activity akin to they say minority
report crime forecasting. This was
Palanteer paraphrasing restrictions of
the EU AI act. So, they're distancing
themselves from pre-rime. And again,
part of the concern here is the slippery
slope that it may become a thing later.
And also, again, distancing yourself
from controversial things is exactly the
type of thing that an AI company
powering global surveillance would do.
But at least that's what they say. Just
from our opinions, this can only get
worse. Palanteer's tools are
unsurprisingly reportedly also being
used to track and surveil people who
aren't suspected criminals. Bloomberg
wrote, quote, "Police and sheriff's
departments in New York, New Orleans,
Chicago, and Los Angeles have also used
it frequently in snaring in the digital
dragnet. People who aren't suspected of
committing any crime. People and objects
pop up on the Palunteer screen inside
boxes connected to other boxes by
radiating lines labeled with the
relationship colleague of, lives with,
operator of, and a cell phone, owner of,
vehicle, sibling of, and even lover of
end quote. The latter of which creates a
vector for blackmail opportunities.
Palanteer's immigration tools, which
have been called immigration OS by
critics, have also enabled ICE to track
and pressure legally present immigrants,
including college students here legally,
not counting other detainment and
arrests of citizens. Law enforcement has
used surveillance platforms like
Palunteers to track, categorize, and
target activists. Wired wrote, quote,
"Surveillance of protesters has included
the construction of dossas known as
baseball cards with analysts using
high-tech tools to compile subjects
social media posts, affiliations,
personal networks, and public statements
critical of government policy." End
quote. As a specific example of the
authorities squashing political
disscent, in April, the US government
revoked the visas of nine foreign
students after they attended protests.
It's an indiscriminate application of an
inherently discriminatory technology.
The only question is who's being
targeted next time. Even if you agree
with current government's ethos, this
should still concern you because the
next administration's philosophies you
might not agree with, but you're still
going to be the target. And this genie
will not go back in the bottle,
especially with trillions of dollars on
the line for the private corporations
that have their hands so far up the
government's ass that you can see that
Jensen hasn't trimmed his nails in a
while. I don't know how to complete the
analogy. You get the idea. All right,
there's a lot of money at play. And uh
Nvidia, as an example, has moved on from
benefiting from video games to instead
benefiting from the extrajudicial
destruction of rights. That's what we
think about what's going on. And to
execute its actions, ICE uses
Palanteer's integrated case management
ICM system, which the company developed
to assist the enforcement agency. And
remember, Juan said Nvidia will
>> accelerate everything Palanteer does.
Amnesty International elaborated on the
dynamic of the ICM for Palanteer. Quote,
ICM allows ICE personnel to create an
electronic case file that organizes and
links all records and documents
associated with a particular immigration
related investigation so they're easily
accessible from a single location. The
AI tools supplied by Palanteer play a
key role in US authorities ability to
identify people as well as their
behavior and movements more quickly and
on a large scale to determine if their
visas should be revoked. End quote.
Speaking of identifying individuals, ICE
uses a facial recognition app called
Mobile Fortify, which handles identity
verification in real time. Wired pointed
out that facial recognition tools like
Mobile Fortify have been linked to false
positives. ACLU Deputy Director Nathan
Freed Wesler told the publication,
quote, "Face recognition technology is
notoriously unreliable, frequently
generating false matches and resulting
in a number of known wrongful arrests
across the country. immigration agents
relying on this technology to try and
identify people on the street is a
recipe for disaster. End quote. Even
scarier, Congressperson Benny Thompson,
who is the ranking member of the House
Homeland Security Committee, stated,
quote, "ICE officials have told us that
an apparent biometric match by Mobile
Fortify is a definitive determination of
a person's status and that an ICE
officer may ignore evidence of American
citizenship, including a birth
certificate." End quote. Elaborating on
the breadth and depth of Palanteer
surveillance capabilities, 404 media
says ICM is capable of sifting through
hundreds of specific categories that
include quote a person's resident and
entry status, physical characteristics
such as tattoos or scars, race, hair,
and eye color, place of employment,
social security number, driver's license
status, bankruptcy status, and location
and license plate reader data. End
quote. Speaking of location tracking,
The Guardian reported that with the help
of Palanter's Falcon tool, ICE could
quote, "track a person's location,
including their route and [music]
movement, hourby hour using cell phone
tower records." End quote. With tools as
powerful as what Palanteer is
developing, you'd want the company to at
least have a solid foundation for
general [music] principles. But
Palanteer is built on a rocky foundation
and we think built a top unethical
ground. In 2010, a competing data
analytics firm, I2, sued Palantir. The
lawsuit alleged Palanteer had
misappropriated I2's software, trade
secrets, and other confidential
proprietary information. In an act of
self-righteousness, Palanceir tried to
explain that it essentially had an
obligation to do so, stating, quote,
"What's at stake here is the ability of
critical national security, defense, and
intelligence agencies to access their
own data and use it interoperably in
whichever platform they choose in order
to most effectively protect the
citizenry." End quote. This, of course,
makes sense when you've got a CEO who
says stuff like this.
>> Palanteer, we believe we're notoriously
good at being right. Yes, I too remember
the arrogance of a 15-year-old playing
Counter-Strike Source.
Is this guy not Oh, he's not He's not
playing Counter-Strike Source, and he
hasn't been he hasn't been a teenager
for a long time.
Something's never changed. Palanteer's
motion was denied and the company
reportedly had to fork over roughly $10
million in a settlement. Fun fact,
Cheyam Sanker was listed as one of the
misproprietors of those trade secrets.
His punishment was to be Palanteer's
CTO. worked out well for him. As a
specific example of Palanteer
surveillance overreach gone wrong, look
no further than Peter Cavitzia III.
Cavitzia, a former Secret Service agent,
was hired by JP Morgan Chase to monitor
the banking company's employees using
Palanteer's tools. Bloomberg reported in
an article titled, quote, "Palanteer
knows everything about you." End quote.
that quote, "Kavichia's group vacuumed
up emails and browser histories, GPS
locations from company issued
smartphones, printer and download
activity, and transcripts of digitally
recorded phone conversations end quote
and made sense of all that data via
Palanteer software." The publication
added, quote, "He had unprecedented
access to everything all at once, all
the time on one analytic platform. He
was a one-man national security agency
surrounded by the Palunteer engineers."
End quote. With so much power at his
fingertips, however, Kavichia eventually
started spying on JP Morgan Chase's
senior executives instead. One JP Morgan
Chase security expert who worked with
Kavichia stated, quote, "The world
changed, but it became clear everyone
could be targeted using Palunteer." End
quote. And later added, quote,
"Nefarious ideas became trivial to
implement. Everyone's a suspect, so we
monitored everything. It was a pretty
terrible feeling." Not liking getting a
taste of their own medicine when the
spyer became the spy e JP Morgan laid
cavichia off. He reportedly got a
severance package and then as an award
for his surveillance overreach became
the CTO of a fintech company. So I guess
somewhere anytime there's surveillance
overreach a CTO gets their wings.
The CTO is the one who did the
surveillance overreach. But look, nobody
gives a [ __ ] about the JP Morgan Chase
executives. Okay? But even still, the
story exemplifies a scenario where
unprecedented surveillance tools that
were originally purpose-built for
military applications are being turned,
we think, unethically against US
citizens for the easy part, but it is
global uh with virtually no checks on
access. And more importantly, the tools
were turned against, in this case, very
powerful, very wealthy banking and
investment executives who had
commissioned the very use of those
tools. These are people who probably
think they're impervious to such things
and yet it was pointed against them. So
with no guardrails in place, we're
reminded of Lord Actton's famous quote
of power tends to corrupt and absolute
power corrupts absolutely. Although
metalband Parkway Drive also said it,
just a little bit of a deeper voice.
While Nvidia essentially got its start
as a graphics card company powering
games and wouldn't have survived without
the backing of gamers, Nvidia has said
it's quote no longer a graphics company
end quote. And it's now grown into the
most valuable corporation in the world.
It's now bolstering the
military-industrial complex with
partnerships. And this isn't your
run-of-the-mill old, boring, archaic
weapons manufacturing of the defense
industry where, at least as an American,
you get the comfort of knowing you
probably won't be extrajudicially blown
to smithetherreens by a missile fired
from a fighter jet in the sky as long as
you're on American soil. This is
something where these particular tools
are being deployed both domestically and
internationally and mostly by private
entities. That's kind of the scary part
here where anybody can be uh a user of
these types of tools if they pay enough
money, if they work with the right
companies. And likewise, anybody can be
an enemy of the state. The only question
we have is where that line is drawn
between the state and between the
private companies that are funding it.
That is what's becoming unclear to us at
this point. Imagine a scenario where an
upcoming politician uh disrupts the
status quo. This is something I've been
thinking about where, you know, growing
up for my generation, you've got maybe
MySpace, Facebook, things like this,
forums on the internet, all of these
things that maybe at the time people
didn't really think using them early on
were potential vectors in the future to
uh make it difficult for them if they
wanted to say run for office where
they've got this whole digital history
for maybe 30 years of things they could
have said that whether they mean it or
not, it's out there. that kind of sets
the stage for where we're going instead
or you thought that was bad. Just take
the scenario where let's say there's an
upcoming politician. I don't care what
party. I don't care what beliefs. Make
it something you care about, someone you
want to support. And they disrupt the
status quo. It could be both parties.
Doesn't matter. A youthful and
compelling orator, new politician wins
over the minds of millions. And if the
establishment is threatened by this,
whoever that is, it might be useful to
have 25 years of data of everywhere
they've ever been, of everyone they've
ever associated with, who they're
friends with, who they've been
photographed with by these security
cameras, even if they don't know those
people. They just happen to be nearby
outside of a club or something. All of
that becomes useful when shot from a
surveillance tower. And abuse by the
establishment or by the many private
companies that have access to this
information is the real concern because
it can lead to blackmail and extortion
that you as uh a normal person might
never be aware of. Only the people kind
of with access to these things would be.
So you could you could manipulate that
new uh youthful vibrant politician into
something that they maybe weren't going
to be. It could also be used to
manufacture scandals and prevent the
disruption of the establishment. Find
something to create a problem out of
nothing. And that's without the
warrantless wrongful arrests which have
already happened to everyday people. So
this technology is dangerous. And both
Nvidia and Palanteer are currently
listed within the top 25 most valuable
companies in the world by market cap
with Nvidia currently at number one and
Palanteer at 23 at the time we
screenshotted this. While much attention
has been given to Nvidia's meteoric
rise, the same can be said about
Palanteer. The company's stock went from
$60.24 about a year ago to approximately
$193 at the time we wrote this. Although
right now, as I'm speaking it, it's $187
or so. Either way, from the points we
just referenced, that'd be somewhere
around a 200 to 220% staggering
increase. It's easy to see why the
bootlickers who are on Reddit are so
quick to defend Palanteer, decrying
videos like this one for what they call
alarmism. There's a lot of money to be made.
made.
>> We're going to be rich. Gold mines. Gold
mine. Gold mine. It's a gold mine. Gold mine.
mine.
>> The current AI gold rush is contingent
upon Nvidia prevailing. And considering
Nvidia is partnering with Palanteer,
then these companies may be seen by the
government and the banks as too big to
fail. We've seen how that works out for
everyday people. If you're hoping for
ethical safeguards around AI to be put
in place, these are not the conditions
for them. If anything, Nvidia's hardware
and software ecosystem are more likely
to push Palanteer's militaristic and
[music] surveillance capabilities to
become even more autonomous and
self-regulated, which would further
remove human accountability from the
equation and even further cheapen the
cost of war and domestic control. Again,
while Palanteer's tools were originally
aimed at terrorists, uh, as they've been
marketed, they have been used on
civilians in the name of safety. And
we're now starting to see unironically
the use of phrases like pre-rime or
pre-rime suspects,
seemingly without any recognition of how
terrifying this concept is. Uh, and AI
has the potential to fundamentally
change society. But to change it for the
better for normal non-trillionaire
people requires responsibility, and
that's not what we're going to get.
Neither Palanteer nor Nvidia have a
great track record for responsibility uh
or for being ethical companies. We think
if anything, they both seem hellbent on
what Karp calls domination. And Jensen's
right there with him now, as a wise man
once said.
>> Yeah. Yeah. But your scientists were so
preoccupied with whether or not they
could, they didn't stop to think they should.
should.
>> Perhaps the worst part of all this is
that there doesn't seem to be a way to
put a pause on this dystopian trajectory
we're on where there's no ballot measure
to vote on right now matters for any of
this. They didn't ask if you care. They
don't ask [music] what you think, what
your opinion is, or what ours is. In
their quest to build what they think is
the future, Nvidia and Palanceier
together may be creating the final boss.
one where we're all helpless NPCs who
are looked upon by the players, which in
a twisted way, I guess, would make
Nvidia a gaming company after all.
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