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by frm88
590 days ago
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>What about the investors bankrolling it, can we trust them? This is the crucial question. We live in capitalism and maximising profits is the most dominant axiom. Without any legislation in place anywhere in the world and AI-supported diagnosis and therapy very much already in place what would prevent the companies bankrolling the software/hardware from bricking the tool on various grounds, like payments not made, political reasons: Cory Doctorow wrote a blog-post in 2022 where John Deere bricked Ukrainian tractors [0]; or a manufacturer of respirators refused to repair the devices at the height of COVID, so that only Hackers enabled the devices to run and save human lifes? [1] [0] https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrain... [1] https://www.hackster.io/news/polish-hacker-shares-software-s... |
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