Didn’t google also help the CCP built their surveillance network as well.
Google Is Helping the Trump Administration Deploy AI Along the Mexican Border
Submitted 3 weeks ago by compostgoblin@slrpnk.net to technology@lemmy.world
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/google-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/
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muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
archchan@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
A nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives is working with Semptian, whose technology is monitoring the internet activity of 200 million people in China.
$1.2bn contract with the Israeli government. Known as Project Nimbus, the joint contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021 aims to provide cloud computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology services to the Israeli government and its military
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Their is a reason they got rid of “don’t be evil”
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
NGL, given how well AI is doing in other fields this sounds like it’ll do more harm than help to their efforts.
Unless it’s an actually competently made machine learning which highlights specific suspicious movements and not any sort of large model.
Definitely not a surprise that the piece of shit Sundar Pichai is working with Trump, though. He attended the Inauguration alongside Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nope, it will just be ‘thing that beeps’ to justify whatever they were planning on doing to immigrants anyway, like police dogs.
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oof. We all know this is true in our bones.
ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Just a quid pro quo to give google a fat government hand out. Only purpose it will serve is to give border agents something to blame for issues. Just like every time DOGE messes up.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Gemini is a bargain basement shit AI
frunch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s good enough to get that gov contract $$ though 🤹♂️
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
True, they’ve already demonstrated a great capacity to fuck up without AI so this will just be more of the same
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
No way, capitalists are siding with fascists??? 🤯🤯🤯
Daggity@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Dang I’ve gotta degoogle faster.
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Helping Mexico keep Americans looking for relief, out.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ICE…but mah job!
sndmn@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
To prevent people entering or leaving?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, exactly.