The abandoned this a few days ago because of a law suit that rightfully pointed out that because ICE refuses to make themselves easily identifiable, the rule is impossible to follow. A drone operator can’t know where an Ice vehicle is before launching a drone.
Anyone remember that short film from 2017 Slaughterbots?
seems like where things are headed
it makes you wonder how the media will spin this into a good thing. lol
that’s assuming that they do more than gloss over it at all or call the victims terrorists.
More important question is how you’ll fight it? Protest nicely? I seriously see no other option beside popular counter assassination campaign.
at that stage, i wonder if there’s anything we could do about it.
this came to mind watching ai software developers proselytize moving from place to place like gypsies on socal media for the last few weeks. lol
As far as I can tell, it’s been reality for like 20 years now. The drones became smaller and perhaps more precise, that is all
it’s primarily about the autonomous weaponry not the use of drones
Which was revealed when Anthropic made their very simple demands and the administration threw a tantrum.
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No fully autonomous murder; a human must make the final decision.
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No domestic mass surveillance.
Pretty simple demands that should have been easy to agree to.
I’m still convinced this was just pure theatre to present them as the good and independent company that’s totally not working with the fascist state.
I wouldn’t say “pure” theatre. I think the demands were serious while also being a common sense PR move that would also motivate (or not demotivate) their employees.
But they were supposed to just be easy to agree to. “Okay, yeah, we’ll have an overseer on the murder bots, and we won’t use it to spy on Americans.” Even with an optional wink wink nudge nudge, it still mostly works for Anthropic’s PR.
It was supposed to be a layup, and the administration airballed it.
it seems like the whole drama didn’t really impact usage of their models by government agencies though
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Why would they want to turn down the ability to collect surveillance data on all their enemies?
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Don’t want to be that guy, but this is far from new news.
"Less than two weeks ago, the United States conducted a drone strike over central Yemen, killing one al-Qaeda operative. The strike was the last under Obama (that we know of). The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians. As he reportedly told senior aides in 2011: “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”
This is from 2017. You can find even older stuff.
None of those were autonomous strikes.
goes both ways. drones are 3d printable, and nazis can also explode.
they may not want to open this pandora’s box.
They do, and they will win. I’m at least glad it is finally over, no one wanted to fight back, well the nazis can just kill us off already, and have their shit world.
not with that attitude.
They aren’t winning in Iran. Why is that?
Other fascists kicking their ass atm because of a blunder.
That’s a bit scary.
Fucking cowards using flying drones. Kill me with a full humanoid and then I’ll be impressed.
cowards
Haha, keep going. I’m sorry, but news flash, they don’t care. To them, even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
I’m surprised I’m getting downvoted… I’m framing it from the view of what they probably believe, not me!
Gonna link to this thread the next time someone gives me shit for adding a /s to what they thought was “obvious” sarcasm.
I recently read Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez from 2012. All in all it was an OK read, but I couldn’t help feeling that the book had been overtaken by reality.
At the time that was the case as well - drone activity during the “war on terror” was widespread and largely indiscriminate in targeting.
