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Comment by hadlock

3 days ago

Or, disgruntled employee looking to make maximum impact the day before the Big Launch of v4. Both are likely reasons.

These disgruntled employee defenses aren't valid, IMO.

I remember when Ring, for years, including after being bought by Meta, had huge issues with employee stalking. Every employee had access to every camera. It happened multiple times, or, at least, to our knowledge.

But that's not a people problem, that's a technology problem. This is what happens when you store and transit video over the internet and centralize it, unencrypted. This is what happens when you have piss-poor permission control.

What I mean is, it says a lot about the product if "disgruntled employees" are able to sabotage it. You're a user, presumably paying - you should care about that. Because, if we all wait around for the day humans magically start acting good all the time, we'll be waiting for the heat death of the universe.

or pr department getting creative with using dog whistling for buzz

  • I really find it ironic that some people are still pushing the idea about the right dog whistling when out-and-out anti-semites on the left control major streaming platforms (twitch) and push major streamers who repeatedly encourage their viewers to harm jewish people through barely concealed threats (Hasan Piker and related).

    The masks are off and it's pretty clear what reality is.

Where is xAI’s public apology, assurances this won’t happen again, etc.?

Musk seems mildly amused by the whole thing, not appalled or livid (as any normal leader would be).

More like a disgruntled Elon Musk that everyone isn't buying his White Supremacy evangelism, so he's turning the volume knob up to 11.