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Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’

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  • S [email protected]

    This is what happens when you read Israeli war propaganda online.

    Genocide apologists are the absolute worst scum.

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    I would try to write up well-worded arguments backed up with valid sources, but there's no point. No matter how well I try to back up my arguments with valid sources, all I get is emotionally biased hate with no content so I've given up on that because it's not worth the effort. Feel free to give me articles from unbiased sources.

    I do admit that israel has done the odd shitty thing but it by far isn't as bad as pro-palestinian brainwashed people make it out to be.

    I want to also ask you to give an alternative response to what hamas is doing after reading up on how they have acted in the past.

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    • T [email protected]

      You see an article about a major tech company collaborating with a major world government, and you think the terrorist resistance cells living in dirt are the ones more capable of disseminating propaganda?

      What if you're the one who's consumed the propaganda? Where's the money, Larry?

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      I'm going to point you to the other comment I replied to here.

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksZ [email protected]

        You think that Israel would be Ukraine in this analogy?

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        No analogy has 1:1 match but I think you get my point.

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        • R [email protected]

          AI is being pushed into war machines big time. America and China are both working on it. With ukraine showing how incredibly effective drones are in warfare, just imagine the damage and destruction a swarm of drones controlled by an AI could cause.

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          Its scary and awful

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          • T [email protected]

            https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1218643254/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to-find-targets-in-gaza-experts-say-its-just-the-st

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            But critics warn the [AI] system is unproven at best — and at worst, providing a technological justification for the killing of thousands of Palestinian civilians.

            This 2023 article didn’t age well.

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            • U [email protected]

              I would try to write up well-worded arguments backed up with valid sources, but there's no point. No matter how well I try to back up my arguments with valid sources, all I get is emotionally biased hate with no content so I've given up on that because it's not worth the effort. Feel free to give me articles from unbiased sources.

              I do admit that israel has done the odd shitty thing but it by far isn't as bad as pro-palestinian brainwashed people make it out to be.

              I want to also ask you to give an alternative response to what hamas is doing after reading up on how they have acted in the past.

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              Ok child murder supporter

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                Thank you, Lemmy. I can't find this on the technology subreddit. Reddit Is complacent.

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                Most Reddit subs block comments or ban you outright if you mention Palestine or Israel. Reddit has taken censorship too far.

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                • U [email protected]

                  I'm going to point you to the other comment I replied to here.

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                  lol your other comment also just says "i wont engage". you say the conversation is emotional but your replies have nothing but grandstanding. ive heard a lot of crazy unsubstantiated claims around Israel-Palestine, but the idea that accusations of innocents being murdered is hamas propaganda is possibly the craziest. what channels are the propagandists going through? whose support does hamas have to disseminate this propaganda? are we done with russian bots now we're onto saudi bots?

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                  • U [email protected]

                    Hamas does rely on child soldiers.

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                    Yes, and journalism soilders, UN shelter soilders, and the humanitarian aid workers from World Central Kitchen from U.S., U.K., and Australia, believe it or not, also hamas soldiers.

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                    • cheesetoastie@lazysoci.alC [email protected]

                      Can anyone ELI5 how they're using AI for genocide? I have awful IT skills so I don't understand AI

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                      There are also many higher education professors doing smart drones. I was in one conference and they were showing off drones flying by themselves and showed the difference between different weather and everything.

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                      • U [email protected]

                        I would try to write up well-worded arguments backed up with valid sources, but there's no point. No matter how well I try to back up my arguments with valid sources, all I get is emotionally biased hate with no content so I've given up on that because it's not worth the effort. Feel free to give me articles from unbiased sources.

                        I do admit that israel has done the odd shitty thing but it by far isn't as bad as pro-palestinian brainwashed people make it out to be.

                        I want to also ask you to give an alternative response to what hamas is doing after reading up on how they have acted in the past.

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                        The odd shitty thing? Israel's been attacking innocent civilians for well over a year now. Hamas is shitty, but there is nothing that warrrants the level of destruction Isreal's done to Gaza.

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                        • I [email protected]

                          I get your point. But Microsoft knows exactly who is using their cloud and why (id proof and industry), vs something for everyone to grab (LF doesnt require id proof and industry). Microsoft is knowingly serving child murderers and it knows their tech is used to do exactly that.

                          You cannot ban kitchen knives because there were a mass stab, but you enforce strict background check so you dont sell rifles to school shooters.

                          In other words, impossible to enforce linux ban without removing the open source aspect of it and affect good people like, but totally possible just not serve somebody commiting a genocide.

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                          This is an important distinction, and one I wasn't aware of, that Microsoft know exactly who, where and when the AI is being used, and what exactly it is being used for: the genocide of Palestinians. And who knows what other genocides will follow.

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                          • S [email protected]

                            Ok child murder supporter

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                            Ok

                            No argument, no sources - congratulations

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                            • cheesetoastie@lazysoci.alC [email protected]

                              Can anyone ELI5 how they're using AI for genocide? I have awful IT skills so I don't understand AI

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                              From the article:

                              The Israeli military uses Microsoft Azure to compile information gathered through mass surveillance, which it transcribes and translates, including phone calls, texts and audio messages, according to an Israeli intelligence officer who works with the systems.

                              From my understanding, they use AI to automate the processing of text, audio, and video data collected by the intelligence services.

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                              • S [email protected]

                                https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jrhu8w/microsoft_employee_disrupts_50th_anniversary_and/
                                Not that hard to find. Nice spiel about reddit though. Very convincing.

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                                Well, he said most...

                                Anyway, i was surprised to find out that the main news sub, https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/ , does not censor those things

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                                • U [email protected]

                                  This is what happens when you read and watch hamas' war propaganda online.

                                  There are photos and videos of russian soldiers dying. Does that give ukraine the fault for this war?

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                                  lol ofc why am I even surprised

                                  is khamas in the room with us rn?

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                                    Ok

                                    No argument, no sources - congratulations

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                                    I would try to write up well-worded arguments backed up with valid sources, but…

                                    I’d like to kindly remind you to piss off with your hypocrisy

                                    If you want argument you’ll get an argument; if not, then go back to your echo chamber (It’s located right next to the chamber pot from which you enjoy your daily feed)

                                    P.S. My sincerest apologies for the verbosity of the directions, but you seem to need it since you lack any

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                                      Ok

                                      No argument, no sources - congratulations

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                                      This is weird. What is actually wrong with you? Go and touch some grass.

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                                        A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.

                                        “Shame on you,” said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you all celebrate when Microsoft is killing children. Shame on you all.”

                                        Sources at Microsoft tell The Verge that shortly after Aboussad was ushered out of Microsoft’s event, she sent an email to a number of email distribution lists that contain hundreds or thousands of Microsoft employees. Here is Aboussad’s email in full:

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                                        LinkedIn just deleted her profile, I was following her yesterday: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ibtihalaboussad

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                                          A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.

                                          “Shame on you,” said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you all celebrate when Microsoft is killing children. Shame on you all.”

                                          Sources at Microsoft tell The Verge that shortly after Aboussad was ushered out of Microsoft’s event, she sent an email to a number of email distribution lists that contain hundreds or thousands of Microsoft employees. Here is Aboussad’s email in full:

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                                          GOOD FOR THEM. I AM SO PROUD OF THEM

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