Dan O’Dowd built his reputation on software safety, and then created an advocacy group The Dawn Project.
He has repeatedly and correctly flagged Tesla AI claims as a total fraud, a clear and present danger to society.
Now he’s expanding the criticism (PDF) to some other known dishonest big tech brands, such as OpenAI.
Each time a $10 billion Al face plants, its promoters say: “nothing is perfect, it’s young, it needs time to learn, these are early innings, it needs more data.” Sam Altman (whose Al couldn’t correctly list US states that ended with the letter Y) wants investors to give him $7 trillion to build a super Al.
The problem isn’t the tech, if you read between the lines, it’s the people running these companies. Why can unrepentant liars be CEOs in America?
Finally a good story for the mostly useless and infamously dangerous technology. Ukraine reports they have successfully deployed a Toyota hydrogen cell into Russian forces as a tactical explosive.
Ukrainian Forces use salvaged hydrogen fuel cell to decimate Russian position in Vovchansk
Toyota just a couple years ago had announced the design of a super light weight high density triple tank holding 5.6kg (670 megajoules) of hydrogen.
The fuel cell stack uses a solid polymer, as in the current Mirai, but has been made smaller and has fewer cells (330 instead of 370). Nonetheless, it sets a new record for specific power density at 5.4 kW/l (excluding end plates). Maximum power has thus risen from 114 kW to 128 kW.
That’s a lot of explosive danger, as Hindenburg might say. Who knew hydrogen tanks were so primed to be huge bombs?
A rough sketch of the Toyota Mirai deployed into Russia. Source: Smithsonian
Related: Hydrogen fueling stations, let alone distribution, are a total farce. Petroleum companies cruelly promoted hydrogen as a political tactic, knowing it was terrible for the environment, simply to slow or stop electric vehicle adoption.
A huge flurry of late recognition (better than never) has landed in the news. Elon Musk’s extremism, long documented on this blog and elsewhere including NPR, is finally being formally acknowledged by regulators.
You may recall Abu Hamza was successfully charged two decades ago in the UK with “intent to stir up racial hatred”. Now read this:
GIFCT’s 30 or so members have a shared database of current terror content that they collectively identify and automatically remove. It appears, though, that X is not contributing to the database or removing its terror content. Researchers at the CST were, within ten minutes, able to find on X propaganda videos from Hamas, Hizbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which are proscribed organisations.
Elon Musk is being called out as a publisher of terror content with intent to stir up racial hatred, NOT a platform owner.
Musk told advertisers to “Go F**k Yorself” and then threatened to sue them if they left him, indicating a dictator mentality completely divorced from accountability. Many now seem to be asking very loudly how soon he will face arrest and extradition.
The market simply isn’t strong enough to self-regulate such egregious criminal activity from a CEO.
In a WhatsApp messages seen by City A.M. between staff at one of the world’s largest ad buying agencies, one exec wrote: “[The lawsuit] coupled with Elon’s comments on recent riots… how any brand can even contemplate going near it is insanity.” Tait added: “Existing concerns that UK advertisers have about the platform are also likely to be increased by role X / Twitter is thought to have played in the unrest we’ve seen over the last week.”
The role Twitter played after it rebranded as a swastika? It was intent to stir up racial hatred, as we could see coming plainly for at least a year now if not three.
These KKK “X” uniforms were a byproduct of President Woodrow Wilson’s promotion of costumed violence against Blacks. The “X” has for 150 years held important symbolism among white supremacists.
Nobody should want to be standing around or advertising at an Abu Hamza event, so surely they can’t be expected to have an account on Swastika aka X aka Twitter.
To be fair at the start of this year The Telegraph had raised a flag that Twitter was an intentional publisher of racist hate.
Yvette Cooper hits out at Elon Musk’s management of X. Shadow home secretary says social media company is being used to ‘promote anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hate’
And the BBC at the same time quoted Ani Aluko when she called Twitter a place where Elon Musk will “vomit hatred unchecked“.
The bottom line: even if everyone flees X, the largest hate rally in history, that alone won’t stop the incitement disinformation it’s spreading now, let alone prevent the predictable violent attacks that follow.
What would the UK have done if Abu Hamza had been in charge of Twitter?
Widespread disinformation campaigns are being spread by Indian social media accounts. They allege far greater threat to Hindu populations in Bangladesh than what is real, likely as a campaign to incite greater violence.
Anxieties are being further inflamed by the spread of false reports of attacks online suggesting the violence against Hindus is orders of magnitude worse than reality.
Many originated from social media users in India… One widely shared X post written in Hindi, India’s most common language, falsely claimed that over 500 Hindus had been killed, hundreds of Hindu women raped and dozens of temples burned to the ground.
Many of the more outlandish claims had also been picked up and reported as fact by Indian media, International Crisis Group’s Thomas Kean told AFP.
“Their reporting and analysis reflects a worldview that is quite out of touch with the reality on the ground,” he said.
xTwitter is again failing to properly handle the disinformation flows, which cause dangerous tension.
Many have seen the news of violent ethnic (white supremacist) riots in the UK, because of the Tesla CEO being one of the worst offenders, but few have exposed this similar xTwitter campaign in Bangladesh.
