this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
1206 points (98.6% liked)

Technology

68723 readers
4080 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
1206
Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
174 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago (4 children)

IBM had a role in the holocaust. Those numbers tattooed on everyone in the concentration camp? Those were IBM ID numbers for the punch cards.

If IBM staff protested about their role, it’s been lost to history. But it’s repeating today with Gaza and the staff who speak out are being demonized. Israel’s Lavender AI is being used to kill civilians. History will prove this woman and the other employees right in the end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Depends who controls the narrative and how it plays out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I still don’t think this “Lavender AI” actually exists, I think that was another scapegoat to blame their deliberate targeting of civilians on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Israel has access to WhatsApp metadata and uses it to target people based on a poorly trained Israeli AI which calls everything Hamas. This is a scapegoat because it allows them to blame the machine for killing people at random.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

A machine can never be held responsible, therefore a machine must ALWAYS make management decisions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

"Another fals positive? Woops! Whatever shall we do?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh shit it's true. I tought punch cards came later but its 19th century(1800s) tech.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is Lavender AI made by Microsoft or uses Microsoft technology?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The IDF uses plenty of Microsoft technology including Azure. The details of Lavender are classified.