Some of us have been saying this for years! And it's one of the reasons we chose to organize, not entreat.
REGULATION
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Cloud Contracts Enabling Mass Population Surveillance Systems
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Yes, definitely. And what cloud/vendor contracts might be hosting/facilitating the surveillance that enables access to such data across an entire population?
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Israeli Military Cloud Infrastructure and US Tech Company Contracts
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Most things run on clouds these day. And the Israeli military has a number of known cloud contracts w/US companies. The claim isn't that it requires it in some fundamental sense.
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Secure Cloud Infrastructure for US Government: OS Libraries Analysis
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Interesting. A lot of cloud cos offer "secure" clouds designed for "sensitive" uses, which Google was racing through FedRamp authorization to offer to USG/DOD when I was there. Given that you seem to have close knowledge, what OS libraries would you assume they're using? What
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License breach implications for AI monetization models
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My guess is that if anyone is making money they're in breach of the license
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Community Notes Slow Misinformation Spread But Lag Behind Viral Content
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Community Notes really does work to slow down the spread of misinformation for tweets that get Notes. The effect is quite large. But the Notes are often posted too slowly, appearing only after false information has gone viral, lowering their real world impact.
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Mapping AI Tools and Accountability Supply Chains
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I agree with this critique. But I don't agree that mapping precisely the tools and pretexts used, their supply chains/links of culpability, is a distraction, or itself causes the projection of culpability onto the 'machine' (echoing exactly the logics of these systems/narratives
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Platform Structure Beyond Network Externalities Critique
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LOL I was like, aw, that's nice! And then I was like… Anyway, I appreciate the kind words! And I push back on the characterization of hopelessness. I don't argue against network externalities, or e-commerce, I simply say that the platforms as they're structured now are
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Big Tech AI Tools: Amazon, Palantir, Microsoft Cloud Ambiguity
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To be pedantic, the Intercept article doesn't clarify whether these particular "AI" tools are the same described in the +972 reporting. Or if these are in fact Amazon, or Palantir (which runs at least in part on Amazon/Google Cloud), or Microsoft. All of these cos have large,