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Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

396 points · 457 comments · nmeagent

  1. ltbarcly3 · · focus · HN ↗
    There seems to be a coordinated and funded effort to spread FUD about AI and datacenters across multiple countries, including the US, Canada, and the Philippines. The most obvious source of funding would be China for a lot of reasons. Taking payments from a foreign government to attempt to influence Americans is against federal law.

    This isn't necessarily some weird corrupt conspiracy.

    1. fhdhcndndn · · focus · HN ↗

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      1. naishoya · · focus · HN ↗
        says a 6 day old account which is potentially in violation of the US statutes to post falsehood.
        1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
          He's right though.
          1. ltbarcly3 · · focus · HN ↗
            Claiming that jews are somehow above the law or "the system" acts always in their favor because they somehow influence it is a classic antisemitic trope. You are being antisemitic, please stop.

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            1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
              You are the only person who said Jew. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
              1. ltbarcly3 · · focus · HN ↗
                It&#x27;s interesting that confronting antisemitism gets me misgendered.
                1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
                  By &quot;confronting antisemitism&quot; you mean &quot;making everything about Jews, then calling it antisemitic&quot;? That&#x27;s antisemantic.
                  1. ltbarcly3 · · focus · HN ↗
                    You clearly didn&#x27;t read the thread at all. I was saying China is likely funding campaigns to discourage AI investment outside of china, and it is illegal to take such money. Then people came out of the woodwork to try to change the subject to Israel (you know, the Jewish state?)

                    I only replied that bringing up Israel out of nowhere in reply to a discussion about the US government and China is clearly an attempt to change the subject, and making false claims about Jews, especially when they fit the usual Elders of Zion pattern of &quot;Jews control the world so they have different rules&quot; is antisemetic, which it is.

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