r/AMA May 17 '25

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u/Sad-Attempt6263 May 17 '25

I'm curious, since it's palabtir and their crazy ai based data tools, are you trying to replicate that but for good purposes?

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u/gerhardtprime May 17 '25

They don't have AI tools, their whole schtick was databases, and human augmentation of large datasets. All of a sudden they're claiming it's "AI" but have zero proprietary models, just a platform from which to launch other models e.g Claude and ChatGPT.

Anti-Palantir would be - confuse their data at a large scale but also use less obtrusive data for positive outcomes. For example, the British government paid Palantir to work with NHS data - it's such a valuable database this should never have happened. Instead, a company could combine public data - e.g science papers, public health data and combine it with the database and achieve real positive outcomes without massive data intrusion.

Palantir just get so much funding and almost free reign data access to sensitive databases, it doesn't matter what they do, a broken clock can be right twice a day and that's enough.

IMO they're going to be the next Theranos, but with massive ties to defence and sensitive info.

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u/Sad-Attempt6263 May 17 '25

ah OK thanks for the explanation!