What happens when, for the last 20yrs, your #NationalSecurity apparatus has, rather than focusing on enemy states/entities, been chasing politically expedient ideological hobgoblins with the encouragement of #ThinkTanks and lobbyists financed by overseas billionaires and #TechBarons ...??

Like the Tufton St entities, the Blair Institute, the TPA, Onward etc. dont already push nationalist ideologies + policy positions that serve the interests of US billionaires + the #SurveillenceCapitalism of #TechBarons??

We've been shit at guarding or limiting their influence thus far!
#UKPolitics

Today’s #techbarons don’t just lobby governments. They shape the information space itself, influencing markets, public opinion and democratic processes worldwide, write Anjuli Shere and Neil Ashdown. (2/4)

They Want You To Be A Slave-Peasant To Billionaires | The Kyle Kulinski Show YouTube video by Secular Talk

This really is just the Fall of Rome all over again isn't it?

#Technofeudalism #TechBarons #Serfdom #HistoryRepeatingItself #Dystopia #AmericanEmpire

youtu.be/Uw3ymc028Uw?...

The next World War will be over access to water, and the leading proponents will be the #TechBarons who influence the #politics of Western governments.

#FutureWars
#GlobalWaterCrisis
#Criminology

a man in a suit and tie is holding a stack of money and smelling it ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a stack of money and smelling it

Here's the thing, running #LLMs/AI are so resource exhaustive that they are not really financially viable.

Explains why #TechBarons are so keen to enslave tech systems/users to them. So, when bubble bursts (imminent) users become service dependent customers who will carry costs, maintain profits.

Using Smaug as a metaphor for #Capitalism, poisoning all the gold of Erebor, and corrupting all who seek its dominion and profits ...

Its like these #TechBarons and #Billionaries have never understood the books from which they steal concepts and ideas!

Point one here is a disturbing example of the #ELIZAEffect

Dangerous if this becomes common in #academia and #HigherEducation

Those in the #SocialSciences need to do better in terms of challenging the #AIPropganda being pushed by predatory #TechBarons so this delusion does not impact our students

Another example of #EpistemicPiracy from an #AI company

Yet further evidence of wholesale #AcademicTheft by unscrupulous #TechBarons

#criminology

The premise of an #LLM being #PhD level is a further misadvertisment by #TechBarons
1. They cannot generate novel knowledge/original contribution
2. Given they plagiarise work of others they cannot pass the research skills test
3. They hallucinate content so cannot show accurate domain knowledge

It's like everyone in the tech industry (including #TechBarons in their pursuit of #SurveillanceCapital) forgot the programming adage of SISO (Shit In, Shit Out) in the clamour for (*not) #AI!

* most LLMs are not #ArtificialIntelligence but labelled misleadingly as 'advanced intelligence'!

What happens when your #TechBarons don't have #Ethics??

The #TechnoUtopianism you hope will solve your #CriminalJustice crises instead leans heavily towards a #TechnoDystopia

#Criminology

🧵 here makes some good points for #Criminology and #CriminalJustice

We are increasingly seeing varying forms of #CodedBias being written into #policing tech pushed by #TechBarons, and the resulting ethical, moral, and practical blindness being ignored due to #TechnoUtopianism/#TechnoOptimism

I wonder how much of that opposition was informed by input from #TechBarons??

Let's be honest there is now no #ethical way for #academia to use #AI.

The moment it became unsustainably extractive in terms of environment, and built on theft from artists and authors (so that #TechBarons could maximise profits) that potential was gone.

#Criminology
#HigherEducation