If engineers/developers directly involved with Microsoft have called out Microsoft, and they were quickly silenced and fired, I’m more inclined to believe them versus a supposed lack of evidence.
According to the documents, the AI services that the Defense Ministry purchased from Microsoft include translation (about half of the average monthly consumption during the first year of the war), OpenAI’s GPT-4 model (about a quarter of the consumption), a speech-to-text conversion tool, and an automatic document analysis tool. In October 2023, the army’s monthly consumption of AI services provided by Azure jumped sevenfold compared to the month preceding the war; by March 2024, it was 64 times higher.
AI is a commodity that’s being developed by the few. They are shaping it to do things that are not for human benefit, like war and surveillance. It’s the truth. They are responsible for their choices and actions, they are consciously making this technology.
If you read the bottom part of my response, you’d hear that I’m just calling out the bullshit you’re peddling. You don’t really care, you’re focused on purity testing impassioned individuals who feel strongly about these subjects.
Microsoft is making the decision to directly sell their AI to that state and its military. It doesn’t change the fact that every being on earth shares responsibility as well. But I don’t have a direct ability to stop Microsoft from choosing to sell their proprietary technologies to support a country in surveilling, targeting, and killing innocents.
I will do everything in my power to voice my opinion and convince others that AI shouldn’t be used for war. I don’t want to live in that world and I’m sure many others don’t as well.
As for Linus, his stances about the use of his technology in war is pretty clear. He doesn’t like it, but he can’t stop it. His software is open-source. There’s a big difference between open-source software you give to all for free (for the benefit of all of humanity) and proprietary software that you provide only with payment.
Thanks, the fact that he completely ignored the bolded text in my initial comment was a dead giveaway they don’t actually give a shit about the morality of the situation.
The boycott list exists for a reason, as explained in detail on the BDS website. I abide by it as much as possible, amd is not on the list while Nvidia and Intel are. Since I had to get a Google phone for grapheneos, second hand one at least prevented me from handing money to Google.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but that doesn’t mean people can’t utilize the BDS movement to inform them on how to avoid the companies that contribute the most to Israel’s genocidal apartheid state.
I hear you. I just wonder, will it be worth it in the end to for them to see to it that society rots and capitalism “wins”, by shutting down discourse in the limited places that it is able to exist?
I’d reason that it won’t be worth it. I just wish they could see it that way too.
I do appreciate that discourse is more viable on Lemmy than the corporate alternatives, I only see that as getting more important as corporations like Meta and Google crack down on fact checking and anti-fascist discussions.
I have my criticisms of the moderation on both the .ml and .world side of things, but at least the fediverse is flexible and fluid with the different instances. A lot of topics concerning imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and socialism have nuances that are important to cut through (all) government and corporate disinformation. But even here a lot of that nuance is overlooked in the larger or team-sporty communities.
Hopefully educational discussions will continue to gain prominence on here and brigading/group-think will be frowned upon and discouraged. This kind of FOSS social media is a great opportunity to grow global solidarity and class consciousness. Which is become ever more critical as global capitalism lashes out with fascism against (at first) the most vulnerable
If engineers/developers directly involved with Microsoft have called out Microsoft, and they were quickly silenced and fired, I’m more inclined to believe them versus a supposed lack of evidence.
Older reporting: https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/
AI is a commodity that’s being developed by the few. They are shaping it to do things that are not for human benefit, like war and surveillance. It’s the truth. They are responsible for their choices and actions, they are consciously making this technology.
If you read the bottom part of my response, you’d hear that I’m just calling out the bullshit you’re peddling. You don’t really care, you’re focused on purity testing impassioned individuals who feel strongly about these subjects.
Microsoft is making the decision to directly sell their AI to that state and its military. It doesn’t change the fact that every being on earth shares responsibility as well. But I don’t have a direct ability to stop Microsoft from choosing to sell their proprietary technologies to support a country in surveilling, targeting, and killing innocents.
I will do everything in my power to voice my opinion and convince others that AI shouldn’t be used for war. I don’t want to live in that world and I’m sure many others don’t as well.
As for Linus, his stances about the use of his technology in war is pretty clear. He doesn’t like it, but he can’t stop it. His software is open-source. There’s a big difference between open-source software you give to all for free (for the benefit of all of humanity) and proprietary software that you provide only with payment.
Thanks, the fact that he completely ignored the bolded text in my initial comment was a dead giveaway they don’t actually give a shit about the morality of the situation.
The boycott list exists for a reason, as explained in detail on the BDS website. I abide by it as much as possible, amd is not on the list while Nvidia and Intel are. Since I had to get a Google phone for grapheneos, second hand one at least prevented me from handing money to Google.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but that doesn’t mean people can’t utilize the BDS movement to inform them on how to avoid the companies that contribute the most to Israel’s genocidal apartheid state.
I hear you. I just wonder, will it be worth it in the end to for them to see to it that society rots and capitalism “wins”, by shutting down discourse in the limited places that it is able to exist?
I’d reason that it won’t be worth it. I just wish they could see it that way too.
I do appreciate that discourse is more viable on Lemmy than the corporate alternatives, I only see that as getting more important as corporations like Meta and Google crack down on fact checking and anti-fascist discussions.
I have my criticisms of the moderation on both the .ml and .world side of things, but at least the fediverse is flexible and fluid with the different instances. A lot of topics concerning imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and socialism have nuances that are important to cut through (all) government and corporate disinformation. But even here a lot of that nuance is overlooked in the larger or team-sporty communities.
Hopefully educational discussions will continue to gain prominence on here and brigading/group-think will be frowned upon and discouraged. This kind of FOSS social media is a great opportunity to grow global solidarity and class consciousness. Which is become ever more critical as global capitalism lashes out with fascism against (at first) the most vulnerable
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