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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Anyone know if it's possible to take a program and "decompile" it? Like reverse engineering or something so it could be verified to be "clean?"

I imagine with all the resources the government has they could achieve such a thing if they were really concerned about national security and not really just worried about metas profits.

I mean what would Elon buying it have really changed about the actual code of the apps? It would just change who gets the profits, no?

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[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Right, but things rarely happen 'for the good of humanity', they just happen, and like mass production or the newspaper or even writing and language itself, it appears, we make use of it, we stumble and eventually we figure out where it really fits into the world. It will always be taken advantage of by those with the means to do so, but my point is that there is a period where we truly don't know how to approach it as a society and there is a learning curve and we are in that adolescent or teenage year type curve for the Internet, and probably toddler stage for ai, and we will learn, but we're not there yet.

Further, whether we learn enough quickly enough, or whether those with enough power and foresight will truly steal that opportunity from society remains to be seen. It may seem like it will be obvious right now, while we're in the thick of things, but only history will tell if it's an obvious eventuality or whether it is comical that they think they are smart enough to actually control it. Maybe it contains the seeds of their own undoing.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Unanimous?! Makes you wonder what they know that we might not.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Nothing. The arguments were public. They obliterated the first amendment rights of 170 million Americans because the government said National Security. If the government can use magic words to make your rights disappear, then you don't have those rights.

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