• invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The thing about the Palantir system is that it’s a state space of everyone in America. Meaning you can approach the network with a query and it will find the shortest path from your query to a person.

    There’s no real evidence or investigation involved, just:

    SELECT * FROM people
    WHERE
        face LIKE "image.jpg",
        last_location WITHIN_DISTANCE("75 MILES", "<lat>, <lon>"),
        MOOD("United Healthcare") < 0 as uhc_mood
    TOP 5
    ORDER BY uhc_mood ASC
    
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      I agree that it’s possible the super advanced surveillance systems that Palantir et al have could’ve been used to find him and Luigi did do it, but then that goes into the parallel construction theory, that the evidence was still planted to solidify a case (especially when the evidence actually utilized to find the subject is inadmissible for some reason).

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        I’m not saying that they got the right guy, I’m saying that the way they use these AI systems to find patsys makes it very believable since the immediately available information will make them look guilty. You then just plant extra evidence until it’s “undeniable”.

        Same way chatGPT is always plausibly correct at first glance.