Yesterday: “The Strait of Hormuz will open tomorrow”
Today: “The Strait of Hormuz will be opening up for business very shortly”
You can’t make this up.
Generative AI is amplifying bad data at scale. Everyone obsesses over model quality while far fewer ask if the source material deserves that much amplification in the first place.
Is the bigger risk right now weak models or bad data moving at machine speed? 🤔
I put on my fraud detection hat whenever I see a 22 year old Tech bro who supposedly dropped out of college to fund an AI startup. In this case, what I found about this Kled guy is incredibly disturbing.
K5 Global is Kled’s lead investor. K5 Global is a firm that frequently invests alongside the Palantir and Thiel network. Another Kled backer, Aglaé Ventures, owned by Bernard Arnault, has a massive AI portfolio that intersects with the same labs that Palantir’s AIP integrates with.
Basically, Kled is the Data Harvester for Palantir. Their job is to mobilize hundreds of thousands of gig workers, mostly from the Global South, to upload personal photos, videos, and documents. They convert raw human life into a machine readable product. Their clients like Palantir act as the Data Refinery. Palantir’s software, specifically Foundry and AIP, is designed to take that data and make it actionable for governments and corporations to put into global surveillance and military use.
We can safely conclude that this Kled guy and other similar AI startups harvesting user data are human meat shields. They are specifically set up and funded to do the dirty work for Silicon Valley tech empires.
Understand that these Large AI labs are currently being sued by artists, writers, and publishers for stealing data through web scraping. To win these court cases, OpenAI and Palantir need to prove they have clean, consented data. Buying a dataset from Kled, where every user signed a 50 page digital consent form in exchange for $20, gives these billion dollar tech companies a free pass.
Also, imagine if Palantir, a company already criticized for government surveillance and US military war campaigns, offered to pay people in developing countries to film their living rooms and daily activities. It would look like a global surveillance network. By using Kled as a middleman, they get the same data but keep their hands clean in the public eye.
Even though we cannot verify his claim of Nigerians defrauding his company, what we can verify is that he is an industry plant. He is set up to allow AI data labs to continue harvesting user data for global surveillance and military use.
Meta is allowing sanctioned Israeli settler groups to monetise content while banning Palestinian accounts, including journalists.
Al Jazeera's @Nour_Odeh reports.
"Baba, I am invited to @PiersUncensored against someone who says nasty, hateful lies about Islam. What do you advise?"
@Malhachimi: "Son, don't just say the facts. Print them on paper and hold them up for everyone to see. Obliterate the lies with the clear, plain truth"
"Ok"
One Palestinian was killed and others wounded as Israeli settlers attacked villages in Qusra and Rashayda in the occupied West Bank, shooting Palestinians and stealing livestock, local officials say https://t.co/DRGqmHmtcR
JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian Foreign Minister says "US officials are posting fake news to manipulate markets."
"It won't protect them from inflationary tsunami they've imposed on Americans. Markets are facing biggest shortfall in history."
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.