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PALANTIR Only 2 types of people that AI can't replace

Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency · 4 months ago

The short version: A Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency video questions Palantir's AI-driven future, and we see the same pattern of data-fusion power creeping into local ALPR networks like Flock Safety.

Our Take

The channel Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency built its following by connecting dots between tech billionaires, government contracts, and the slow normalization of total data visibility. This video's framing of Palantir and who AI supposedly can't replace fits that pattern: it's less about job displacement and more about who ends up holding the keys to the data pipeline when human judgment gets automated out of the loop.

We cover a narrower slice of that same story: automated license plate readers quietly feeding location data on ordinary drivers into networks that increasingly get stitched together with exactly the kind of large-scale analytics platforms this creator warns about. Palantir's business model and Flock Safety's camera network aren't the same company, but they rhyme — mass data collection first, policy and oversight an afterthought, if it comes at all.

If a video like this makes you wonder what's actually watching your street, check our camera map to see what's nearby, and visit our take-action page for ways to push back on unaccountable surveillance infrastructure in your own town.

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.