Comment by Barrin92
13 hours ago
>Where are these mythical people who admire companies more when they commit felonies?
everywhere, I talked to a Palantir guy once and he said "every time someone paints us as a Bond Villain the stock prices go up", have you already forgotten how Cambridge Analytica marketed itself to clients?
Palantir markets to governments. OpenAI and Anthropic aim to get ordinary people to purchase their services, too
Yep, when Obama and Hillary used them, geniuses. Only evil when Trump did the same thing.
Odd how that works.
Indeed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-co...
And the entire FB app industry was doing it.
The whole Cambridge Analytica thing was one of the oddest most bizarrely specific media manufactured scandals that conveniently focused very narrowly and utterly ignored the bigger picture, much like the media are currently doing with something else.
CA is a scandal primarily due to account escalation, I thought. Not about who got elected
But shadow ads can be a problem too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSMr-3GGvQ (you can be pro-Brexit but ads like this are still a problem)
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