Partnered with Microsoft secret data analytics company PalantirHe is accused of allowing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to act as a “consultant” (among other misdeeds). internal control agency.” Bloomberg reports Palantir will integrate its products with Microsoft’s government cloud tools, including the Azure OpenAI service, to “sell software” to US defense agencies. Oh, the joy.
The pair will reportedly focus on products to manage logistics, contracting and operational planning for US defense personnel. But given the secretive nature of Palantir’s work, these generic and seemingly innocuous terms don’t say much.
Palantir’s software has been is used monitor and suppress opposition. The company was founded by Peter Thiel support and funds has far-right causes and a political philosophy described by his biographer as “bordering on fascism”. In Thiel’s Stanford lectures and book Zero to One, the Silicon Valley billionaire reflected on how much better companies are governed than governments because they have a single decision-making body. “A dictator, basically,” Thiel’s biographer he said Time in 2021.
Thiel too he wrote “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” he said.
Palantir in 2018 he claimed in The New York Times ICE’s deportation team does not work with Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). This contradicts A report from The Intercept A 2016 Homeland Security disclosure showing that ERO used Palantir’s software to “collect information for both criminal and civil cases against immigrants.”
Amnesty International in 2020 warned About Palantir, “We can close our eyes and pretend that, against all evidence, Palantir is a company that respects rights, or what we can call this facade: just another company that puts profits over people, regardless of human value.”
Bloomberg reports that Palantir’s newest AI software requires a large language model. Now, in secret government environments, Palantir will combine its powers with theirs Microsoft’s Azure OpenAIincludes GPT-4oGPT-4 Turbo with Vision, GPT-4, GPT-3.5 and more.
What could be wrong?
