File this under ClosedAI.

ChatGPT for a long time on March 20th posted a giant orange warning on top of their interface that they’re unable to load chat history.

After a while it switched to this more subtle one, still disappointing.

Every session is being treated as throwaway, which seems very inherently contradictory to their entire raison d’être: “learning” by reading a giant corpus.

Speaking of reasons, their status page has been intentionally vague about privacy violations that caused the history feature to be immediately pulled.

Note a bizarre switch in tone from 09:41 investigating an issue with the “web experience” and 14:14 “service is restored” (chat was pulled offline for 4 hours) and then a highly misleading RESOLVED: “we’re continuing to work to restore past conversation history to users.”

Nothing says resolved like we’re continuing to work to restore things that are missing with no estimated time of it being resolved (see web experience view above).

All that being said, they’re not being very open about the fact that chat users were seeing other users’ chat history. This level of privacy nightmare is kind of a VERY BIG DEAL.

Not good. Note the different languages. At first you may think this blows up any trust in the privacy of chat data, yet also consider whether someone protesting “not mine” could ever prove it. Here’s another example.

A “foreign” language seems to have tipped off Joseph something was wrong with “his” history. What’s that Joseph, are you sure you don’t speak fluent Chinese?

Room temperature superconductivity and sailing in Phuket seem like exactly the kind of thing someone would deny chats about if they were to pretend not to speak Chinese. That “Oral Chinese Proficiency Test” chat is like icing on his denial cake.

I’m kidding, of course. Or am I?

Here’s another example from someone trying to stay anonymous.

Again mixed languages and themes, which would immediately tip someone off because they’re so unique. Imagine trying to prove you didn’t have a chat about Fitrah and Oneness.

OpenAI reports you’ve been chatting about… do you even have a repudiation strategy when the police knock on your door with such chat logs in hand?

There are more. It was not an isolated problem.

The whole site was yanked offline and OpenAI’s closed-minded status page started printing nonsensical updates about an experience being fixed and history restored, which obviously isn’t true yet and doesn’t explain what went wrong.

More to the point, what trust do you have in the company given how they’ve handled this NIGHTMARE scenario in privacy? What evidence do you have that there is any confidentiality or integrity safety at all?

Your ChatGPT data may have leaked. Who saw it? Your ChatGPT data may have been completely tampered, like dropping ink in a glass of water. Who can fix that? And if they can fix that, doesn’t that go back to begging the question of who can see it?

All that being said, maybe these screenshots are not confidentiality breaches at all, just integrity. Perhaps ChatGPT is generating history and injecting their own work into user data, not mixing actual user data.

Let’s see what happens, as this “Open” company saying they need access to all the world’s data for free without restriction… abruptly runs opaque and closed, denying its own users access to their own data with almost no explanation at all.

Watching all these ChatGPT users get burned so badly feels like we’re in an AI Hindenburg moment.

Related: The Microsoft ethics team was fired after they criticized OpenAI

You may remember the Tesla CEO last year trying to publicly shame a “tester” for being critical.

The CEO went further in the thread to whine that giving early access to software means testers will be very harshly criticized if they dare to criticize.

Such dictated dysfunctional displays of communication (Tesla wants boot-lickers only) are symptomatic of their product failures.

On that note, Tesla recently issued a recall that publicly admitted their fraudulently named FSD is a failure (“anachronistic and just flat wrong“). They argued failing to deliver what they charge for in advance fees… isn’t plain fraud (e.g. advanced fee fraud).

In a similar fashion when their door handles stopped working, Tesla argued they don’t have to fix them after basic warranty because they don’t consider it a defect when their ideas/designs are huge failures that lead to more advanced fees for more failures.

See? You can’t criticize failure because that’s what they’re selling, with no obligation to deliver anything that works. It’s like the Nigerian 419 scam except Tesla victims are far more likely to be trapped and burned to death after being tricked out of their savings.

For example, the criticism above is that Tesla has over-focused on a high profile complicated unprotected left turn instead of more basic safety issues.

Why?

It looks like an orchestrated PR move to swing sentiment and hide reality of defects. An instrumented product engineering decision based on expertise in reducing failures likely wouldn’t have poured resources into promoting dangerous left turns.

I’m reminded of the tragic Tesla decision to push FSD with inexpensive least capable equipment and no real upgrade plan (after both Mobileye and NVidia walked away, citing toxic management).

A report from The Washington Post reveals that a number of Tesla engineers were “aghast” at Musk’s insistence on removing radar, widely seen as a cost-cutting measure. Engineers feared that the removal of such important sensors could lead to an uptick in crashes, noting that the cameras couldn’t be relied upon if they were obscured by raindrops or bright sunlight.

The flailing industry-laggard Tesla AI model is completely inverse to common sense, generating huge amounts of extremely low quality data as a big bogus show of “working hard” instead of trying to get signal through more trustworthy high efficiency investments that would make real measured progress.

It’s like when someone dumps tens of thousands of heavy paper pages (mostly blank) on a table and boasts they’re the smartest person in the room working on the hardest problems, instead of a normal person offering a 10 page report showing actual intelligence.

Tesla solving 1+1=2 a hundred million times (lower level or no level) is NOT equivalent to someone doing basic algebra (higher level) a thousand times. Yet you’ll see Tesla often arguing they have the “most” miles as a form of trickery, emphasizing again they are selling failure (e.g. they’re still getting 1+1=5).

Worse, Tesla PR using social media about failing a calculus test repeatedly doesn’t validate any massively high volume low quality low level program. A proud parent boasting their baby soon will do quadratic equations is… nonsense. Focus instead on changing that full diaper maybe?

Tesla failures since 2016 have suggested fraud: critics silenced in favor of human guinea pigs in PR stunts caught up with constant broken promises.

So, as I pointed out before with “beta” version 10, the latest release of software to public roads is putting innocent people in harm’s way. FSD 11, despite all the big claims to focus on the high challenge of automated unprotected left turns, immediately is being demonstrated by “testers” as unsafe.

Start at 13:15 and watch FSD 11 creep into an intersection, blocking a crosswalk to run a red light.

Ladies and gentlemen, Tesla’s best attempt ever still doesn’t see red lights in intersections.

The test driver warns things only get much worse after that, such that by 38:45 he is angry and says “face palm… one blunder after another… really uncomfortable… no point in using FSD”.

Targeted harassment of critics of Palantir appears to be an organized function driven by right wing extremists posing as investors.

It’s that simple.

More attention should be brought to the situation. These attacks are a symptom of Palantir being a political dragnet for monopolist (fascist) objectives.

First, Palantir doesn’t deliver on what it claims. It fails at even basic intelligence, as I’ve written about before. People quitting Palantir over the years have reached out to me to complain how misled and ashamed they feel for being a part of the bait.

If you doubt Palantir, you’re probably right. In other words, the American company shamelessly built an overpriced and unaccountable “justice” system that tries to paint the world with an overly simplistic good/evil dichotomy.

Second, it’s a proprietary opaque platform designed for data entrapment. Any time or money invested into trying to integrate with it is sunk cost, never recoverable. That’s their hook.

“Every trust in England will be forced to integrate [by Palantir]…” said GP IT consultant and clinical informatics expert Marcus Baw. “This means there has already been significant taxpayer investment…. “Trusts are busy, with limited IT team capacity, so they cannot afford to redo work.”

Third, it is accused of privacy violations as an overbroad dragnet to facilitate right wing political attacks and target critics. That’s the “reel” problem (pun intended)…

“The company is failing to fulfill its human rights responsibilities.”

That was a warning from observers, which proved to be chillingly accurate.

Unidentified police officers in Hesse [using Palantir] accessed the contact details of several politicians and prominent immigrants from official records and shared them with the neo-Nazi group, according to local reports.

In other words, unwitting targets of Palantir sign giant contracts on promise of some knowledge gain only to find out it’s an intentional trap. They lose control of privacy and sensitive data as it goes into use/processing for right-wing political extremism.

Let it sink in for a minute that police in Germany used their Palantir deployment as intelligence to facilitate Nazi groups attacking political opponents.

If that doesn’t give you an accurate enough picture of what Palantir is intending to do, read on for more.

Here’s how one particularly subversive Palantir “investment group” characterizes themselves as taking on the world.

This group clearly sees Palantir for what it allegedly is meant to be. They say they are “investors” as if they care about quick profit, yet they seem far more interested in abrupt power gains for… a race war.

It helps explain why an “investment group” has such overt political intentions, and why they setup a Twitter account to abuse people — spread hate as their brand in attacking critics.

They pattern (arguably in British English) with tired American political attack memes — dog whistles loud enough you don’t have to have dog ears.

“Valinor via Valhalla” is a shout out to right-wing “fascination”. Like the swastika, the origins erode and unfortunately become irrelevant with heavy hate group usage.

This iconography has long held sway in the political sphere. The idea of a tall, strong, blonde-haired and blue-eyed Nordic race was one that came to underpin the Nazis’ Aryan ideal and cemented the subsequent right-wing fascination with the Norsemen. Interestingly, JRR Tolkien, whose Middle-earth draws heavily upon the Sagas and Eddas, admonished “that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler” for “ruining, misapplying, and making forever accursed, that noble northern spirit.”

You can see this “investment group” operate more like a right-wing hate group as it coughs up “Soros” hairballs.

You might recall how Elon Musk infamously insulted and taunted a disabled member of his staff? Trump mocked disabled people? That insensitivity is another pattern of political extremism, which this “investment group” has turned into a tasteless moniker: “#palantard”

As expected, their response to my criticism of Palantir is lacking any intelligence other than naming (see point one above, how Palantir fails at what it promises).

Obviously they name-search for the company, then raise a dog-pile flag to go after any critic by using generic personal attacks as censorship. Get it? Hunt to find targets for public attack based on singular weak identifiers (e.g. critic). Such a good/bad simplistic classifier narrative to mobilize a mob reaction is the literal opposite of intelligence.

A look at their Twitter and Discord accounts, like assessing use of the Palantir platform itself, shows directed and coordinated/targeted harassment for political purposes (power).

They engage in typical Pepe memes, chan language (“chad,” “tard”), and monopolist fantasies (e.g. flashy watches as commodity fetishism of class supremacy, a derivative of Colonialism).

A group pumping out Soros as an insult and playing 2016 Alt Right memes is the face of who really believes in Palantir as a wise investment. That’s not a coincidence.

And perhaps most telling, the “investment group” pleads they can’t be racist or antisemitic because they refer to Palantir’s CEO as their “daddy” (e.g. the flawed “some of my best friends are” defense), which is obviously about as right as them saying that following (Kan)Ye isn’t wrong.

Peter Thiel, reportedly the son of Nazi Germans who left the country to maintain wealth while avoiding guilt and reparations for genocide, has been telling reporters he didn’t believe SVB would fail when he instigated a $50 billion run on the bank that collapsed it in 48 hours.

There are two key lessons here.

One, Thiel has been an unapologetic monopolist who tries to wipe out others’ safety and prosperity for selfish gains… as if he’s trying to live in a game called Monopoly.

Hearing him say he didn’t believe he would wipe out his targeted opponents is like hearing he didn’t believe he would win at Monopoly (while allegedly doing everything in his power to win by wrecking his opponents, and society in general).

How modest of him… to refuse to accept guilt (a symptom of Nazism).

His conspiracy to drive money from SVB to his own company (Brex) seems to have started around last August. It looks like a coordinated plan that was unleashed late 2022 with intent to abruptly transfer power from regulated institutions and widespread groups into his monopolist hands.

Thiel had primed Brex for direct competition with SVB and, as his bank run picked up volume and velocity, began cruelly marketing success as a huge Brex influx of fear-based deposits.

The icing on this gross monopolist cake was Brex then taunted regulators by claiming they were positioning for the same run but at 10 times SVB (Brex spreads giant VC deposits across nine banks simultaneously). It’s as if threatening worse and worse catastrophe is Thiel’s signature move for why he’s going to be the only winner. Did I mention his family seems to have left Nazi Germany (for South Africa, where they profited from Apartheid) to avoid accepting guilt?

The Monopoly game probably never would have sold in America if they had just been honest and called it fascism.

…monopolies and cartels brought the Nazis to power and [lawyers] warn that rising concentration in the American economy could similarly threaten democracy. …the German experience with Nazism lends support to the idea that extreme concentration of economic power enables extreme concentration of political power.

Apparently openly referring to oneself as a monopolist, while refusing to condemn Nazism, is popular on Wall Street?

Two, anyone doing business with Palantir should evaluate whether they’re in high risk of being targeted from within for huge loss, or they’re being used to facilite societal collapse for Thiel’s personal monopolistic gain. Or both. Those are the choices, unfortunately.

On that point, SVB wasn’t the only giant venerable institution being targeted by the monopolist last summer, if you remember the NHS controversy.

We’re very concerned that this latest move to force more [British] patient data into Palantir has been done with zero public input or consent.

Now it’s being reported more clearly how the same guy who just drove a large public bank collapse into his pockets, also has been on a mission to collapse public healthcare.

…leaked documents reveal that NHS bosses have now ordered a rollout of Palantir software to hospitals across England, in a seeming breach of that promise. The firm has also exploited a weakly regulated ‘revolving door’ in the NHS – poaching at least three former NHS data experts – as it chases the “must-win” contract. One of its recent hires, Indra Joshi, served as head of artificial intelligence for the NHS and helped launch the Covid-19 datastore – the first NHS project to use Foundry – before quitting the health service and joining Palantir in April 2022. Harjeet Dhaliwal, who was previously deputy director of data services at NHS England, joined the firm later that same year. The two ex-NHS staffers joined Paul Howells at Palantir, the company’s “health and care director”, who previously led a national data programme for NHS Wales.

That giant sucking sound is Palantir trying to pull highly regulated data and talent into Thiel’s control. Has there ever been a modern healthcare run and collapse of public service by a monopolist? Perhaps we’ll see one in England.

In related news, the country that knows best the signs of monopolistic ferver (e.g. Nazism) is said to be taking big steps away from the highly dangerous Palantir.

Germany raises red flags about Palantir’s big data dragnet. A court put strict limits on pulling innocent bystanders into big data investigations.

England should be getting its direction from Germany, and not ironically.

The American occupation and organization of laws in Germany after WWII has now put it far ahead of both the UK and even the US on basic public safety, as seen by temperature on Palantir.

Beware the signs of an unrepetant monopolist who works hard to profit from instability and societal collapse while claiming they didn’t believe their final solution would be realized (brazenly refuse to accept guilt).

SVB collapse increasingly seems to have been an intentional act by Thiel, and the NHS now appears to be targeted for a similar fate.