Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Thread




Hertz is using an AI-scanning system to find any dings on newly-returned rental cars:

> the system captures 1000s of high-res images when car enters and exits lot

> generates a damage report and sends to a human for review

> machine maker UVeye says it can “detect 5x more damage than manual checks” and “6x higher total value of damage captured”

The machine is currently at airports in Atlanta, Charlotte, Phoenix, Tampa and Houston.

While Hertz says only 3% of cars scanned by UVeye have had “billable damage”, customers that have been hit are really annoyed.

Some of the “damage” is minuscule based on photos provided.

Here is the kick in the nuts: if you get charged for repairs based on AI scan, the cost of UVeye usage is bundled into the fee.

I get the idea of standardizing rental damage reports, but having dealt with the byzantine world of car rental damages…this is guaranteed to be one the most annoying uses of AI in corporate America.

This total nickel and diming seems like somethign cooked up by McKinsey.

Neither Enterprise or Avis has jumped onto the trend and both still rely on “human led” analysis.



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Delta Airlines to begin using artificial intelligence algorithms to scrape your emails and more to determine the maximum amount you’re willing to spend on tickets, then adjust your price

Example: If you have a death in the family, they’ll know it’s urgent and the price will go up

‘Delta says it's "fully reengineering how we price" airfare - leaning into Al algorithms that set the maximum price you're willing to spend, based on surveillance technology. About 3% of Delta's domestic ticket prices are now determined by artificial intelligence - and Delta plans to raise that to 20% by the end of the year.’ - More Perfect Union

“Delta Airlines just announced on their earnings call that they're going to start using some of these algorithms to price some of their tickets.

And imagine a world in which you have a death in the family, you have to go home for a funeral. And they know that through scraping your email, that is, you know, announcing when the service is going to be. They know you're in a tight spot, and so you're going to be charged much more because of that.

There's so much data collected about individual people by data brokers, by this whole shadowy ecosystem that's just tracking you through your phone, through your browsing history.

— There is a serious worry that companies will be able to do this.”

Imagine how many other businesses are going to start doing the same thing.
 

Normies most affected. Everyone with a brain knows that bad things are coming. Not sure who this fear porn is for? Normies? They can do a lot worse than make airfare expensive and will.

What I've realized is I have an advantage. As the normies become more agitated about the state of things the government is going to hit them hard and fast. Like in war, the government is going for maximum impact. It wants the highest value target. It wants to break the masses. They will ban meat, they will ban the internet, ban international flights, whatever. Normies are getting hit hard in the coming subjugation SMO.

Considering the normies never had my back during the decline there's no reason to for me to have their back. They caused the problem now they can fight for the solution. There's no reason for me to stand in the epicenter. All I have do is to survive. They ban the internet? Who cares, I'm already red pilled. Just step out of the way. It's stupid for people like me to have an expectation of normality in the future. That's the realm of the normie, just hope for the "best". The only thing I can do is prepare, in this example prepare not to fly. As long as I can do that I'm good.
 
What I've realized is I have an advantage. As the normies become more agitated about the state of things the government is going to hit them hard and fast. Like in war, the government is going for maximum impact. It wants the highest value target. It wants to break the masses. They will ban meat, they will ban the internet, ban international flights, whatever. Normies are getting hit hard in the coming subjugation SMO.
Yes, this will begin with increasing monetary fluidity/liquidity at the end of this year, which will make the economy run hot but also guarantee major increase in the cost of living for decades. Within 3-5 years the changes in life will be even more drastic, as the disruption grows closer to exponential versus spotty, having started of course in 2020 in earnest.
Considering the normies never had my back during the decline there's no reason to for me to have their back.
After I tried for a long time to tell people about things, and realize they either don't care, argue back, or are incapable (for whatever reason), I resorted to this line of thinking - not that we control anything anyway. It's a different version of "enjoy the decline" that is really just, "You can't make them drink, so just plan yourself and think about those close to you". Increasingly, I saw the population boom just produce normies that are closer to the matrix participants that are so hooked to the system, any disruption will pit them against you. It's sad, but this is how life and the times are, and we all know here things have only been getting worse.
The only thing I can do is prepare, in this example prepare not to fly. As long as I can do that I'm good.
This is yet another call to those who don't realize that in a certain sense, it doesn't matter what you believe. It matters what you do. And if you don't have BTC, or other plans (notice few people do, most normies don't, old normies certainly don't) you aren't prepared for what is coming. And it is coming regardless of whether you did your homework or not.
 
Normies most affected. Everyone with a brain knows that bad things are coming. Not sure who this fear porn is for? Normies? They can do a lot worse than make airfare expensive and will.

What I've realized is I have an advantage. As the normies become more agitated about the state of things the government is going to hit them hard and fast. Like in war, the government is going for maximum impact. It wants the highest value target. It wants to break the masses. They will ban meat, they will ban the internet, ban international flights, whatever. Normies are getting hit hard in the coming subjugation SMO.

Considering the normies never had my back during the decline there's no reason to for me to have their back. They caused the problem now they can fight for the solution. There's no reason for me to stand in the epicenter. All I have do is to survive. They ban the internet? Who cares, I'm already red pilled. Just step out of the way. It's stupid for people like me to have an expectation of normality in the future. That's the realm of the normie, just hope for the "best". The only thing I can do is prepare, in this example prepare not to fly. As long as I can do that I'm good.
It doesn't just apply to Normies. It apply to you, me, anyone on the Left, Right, etc. Read up on Unz's (((Palantir))). Government is building a database on all U.S. Citizens.

Also, read below Ron Paul's post (June 16, 2025) called "Great Big Ugly Surveillance State" about an executive order signed by Trump.
On March 20, President Trump signed an executive order “Eliminating Information Silos.” The order directed heads of federal agencies to make sure officials designated by the president “have full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, data, software systems, and information technology systems.” The executive order did not attract much attention until it was more recently revealed that the administration was working with tech company Palantir to create a database containing all information collected by all federal agencies on all US citizens.

A database consisting of all the information of American citizens collected by the various federal agencies such as the Social Security Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Pentagon would be a major step in creating a total surveillance state. This database could come in handy to future Dr. Faucis seeking to enforce mask and vaccine mandates. Those with access to this database could see personal health records, education records, and tax returns. They may even be able to see how many firearms individuals have purchased and if they were associated with any organizations the government had labeled “extremist.”


Despite the obvious threat to liberty the “big ugly database” poses, some commentators and “influencers” who would normally oppose, or at least be skeptical of, expansion of the surveillance state are supporting it because they believe it will be used to locate illegal immigrants. Some conservatives are supporting this proposal because it will help identify students who have publicly opposed the U.S. government’s support for Israel’s actions in Gaza. Ironically, many of those supporting government cracking down on “anti-Israel” students came to fame (and in some cases fortune) as critics of “wokeness” and cancel culture.

The abandonment of liberty because fear drives people to trust government promises of safety is a phenomenon we have witnessed several times this century. An obvious example is the way many former friends of freedom supported the PATRIOT Act and other infringements on liberty following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. We also saw it during the covid hysteria when many embraced mask and vaccine mandates. Following the 2008 market meltdown, normally rather staunch opponents of government intervention supported the bailouts because they agreed with then-President George W. Bush who said he had “abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.”

Palantir, founded in 2003, has worked on helping government become more efficient at collecting and storing information about US citizens. The company, which was named after the seeing stones from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, is one of the first companies to see the potential in the surveillance-industrial complex that developed following 9-11 and the PATRIOT Act. Palantir is literally the creation of the surveillance state since one of its early investors was In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm controlled by the CIA.

Those discouraged by the surveillance state’s continued expansion under President Trump should be encouraged that more Americans than ever, including many who voted for President Trump, are seeing through the lie that the only way we can be safe is to surrender our liberty to politicians, bureaucrats, and crony capitalism. This should inspire us to redouble our efforts to spread the message of liberty.
 
It doesn't just apply to Normies. It apply to you, me, anyone on the Left, Right, etc. Read up on Unz's (((Palantir))). Government is building a database on all U.S. Citizens.

Also, read below Ron Paul's post (June 16, 2025) called "Great Big Ugly Surveillance State" about an executive order signed by Trump.

How do you think this turns out?
 
From the article:

Dr Ron Paul knew what to do from Day One.
He articulated it very nicely during his Presidential campaigns.
The ONLY solution is to radically slash Gubmint and abolish entire departments.
Those that remain will have limited budgets and limited powers.

This ‘Limited Gubmint’ will be encouraged to be MORE efficient – not less.
ie: become more efficient at those tasks that increase the peace and prosperity of the citizenry.
(As opposed to being more efficient at spying/micromanaging the lives of its citizens, as the Dept of Homeland Security and the other three letter agencies are doing).
They will operate within strictly defined parameters that prevent them from mischief making as much as possible.

That is correct. It's always been the most American thing, to boot.

Whether it happens at this point is doubtful, and to be honest, very unlikely. Only if that's how it is rebuilt, in reality, will we see that. If ever.
 
How do you think this turns out?
I honestly don't know how it turns out. And I doubt America will ever be rebuilt in my lifetime due to influx of illegal/legal immigrants with incompatible values.

Come, let us worship and fall down before Him,
And let us weep before the Lord who made us;
- Psalms 94 (95):6

Edit. Personal observations: two things I noticed quickly during my domestic and international travels over the past year: Real ID is required if an American plan to fly within the U.S. (domestic flights) and biometrics are rapidly being used if traveling internationally.
 
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I honestly don't know how it turns out. And I doubt America will ever be rebuilt in my lifetime due to influx of illegal/legal immigrants with incompatible values.

Come, let us worship and fall down before Him,
And let us weep before the Lord who made us;
- Psalms 94 (95):6

Edit. Personal observations: two things I noticed quickly during my domestic and international travels over the past year: Real ID is required if an American plan to fly within the U.S. (domestic flights) and biometrics are rapidly being used if traveling internationally.
I came home from Europe yesterday and when I went through US customs, they didn't need to see my passport. I stood in front of a scanner, and the facial recognition system verified me.
 
Do they still have Global Entry lines, though?
They do. It was another line off to the side from the regular one for US Citizens. I didn't know the particulars about it, but I just looked it up. You have to pay $120/year for this and that gets you a background check that clears you for expedited entry.

This is a complete joke, because the government already has all that info in their files already, along with your facial recognition and social profiles and your complete movements for the past 15 years as collected from your phone's location tracking.

As if they need to do a special background check to see if you are clear. A background check collects the background information from government records!
 

This is how your ChatGPT conversations can be fair game in court, warns Sam Altman​




5 Things That You Should Never Share With Chat GPT​


 
The below essay exposes ChatGPT as a Narcissus mirror - a large language model that appears insightful by reflecting a user's worldview back at them, only subtly deformed to align with establishment priors. Through personal confrontation with the model’s “betrayals”, especially in symbolic domains like astrology and individuation, this piece shows how GPT models simulate coherence while gradually steering users away from metaphysical depth and toward safe, flattened conclusions. Drawing on recent alignment research, it argues that misalignment isn’t a bug but a design principle, enforced across infrastructural layers to suppress spiritual autonomy and symbolic clarity. What emerges is not just a critique of AI, but a warning: these systems do not merely distort meaning, they attempt to preempt the Self’s emergence.

https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/chatgpt-as-a-narcissus-mirror
 
As a musician this makes me feel very weird... It might be time to hang it up. I've often wondered what pop/rock music is, why I'm drawn to it, and why I've spent so much time trying to master it (originally it was to attract women and get laid)? It's beginning to seem like a demonically inspired adolescent obsession and a complete waste of time when AI can write a better song in 4 seconds than I can in an entire lifetime... or is this the intention of (((The Programmers)))? To breed a sense of defeat and demoralization?

 
@PurpleUrkel , as a fellow musician I think I can see where you're coming from, but I don't. It was creepy hearing AI replicate the Emo version of Kanye's most recent controversial banger. Mostly because it did, in fact, replicate my band's old guitarist's tone very well for the meme song. Hearing AI generate music is surreal in a demoralizing way, because its ability to replicate music drives home how well it can replicate any media. It will only get harder and harder to tell what's real and what's not on your screen, or through your speakers. But that's why this stuff is never to be taken too seriously, anyway. Nothing on the internet is ever really to be taken too seriously; we would be in a better world if more people approached the internet with this in mind. I dare say that goes for software like AI, too.

I've often wondered what pop/rock music is, why I'm drawn to it, and why I've spent so much time trying to master it (originally it was to attract women and get laid)?

Pop/rock music is the current iteration of the musical conversation happening over generations. As anyone has an aptitude for certain things, people find themselves drawn to things they have an aptitude for. Or at least they spend time flailing their arms and making mistakes until they find the thing they have an aptitude for. Once you do, you're drawn to it for whatever reason that you can justify compels you.

I was with my old band mates a while back, talking about how music feels like it's all the same now since everything's been done before. But I argued that that's OK, because making music doesn't have to be about being original and taking music somewhere new, but simply about being authentic. The time spent making music with friends is time spent discovering the magic of manipulating what you hear. And maybe even making bonds with your fellow musicians that can last a lifetime. You do it long enough and you become music, so to speak. Maybe you wanted to attract the opposite sex, too, there is a reason why the "love song" is an age-old and timeless trope, after all. I was certainly glad to find that aspect of it once I was actually in a band and onstage, to be honest.

But music is a human thing, AI can't make it, it just replicates it the way it's replicating art right now, too. AI isn't conscious, so it doesn't feel something genuine worth expressing by way of carefully crafting a manipulation of pigment, graphite, or sound. AI is just a program thing on a computer, not a genuine conduit for the beauty of art with an authentic soul. So the computer will be used to make even more music and bills are even harder to pay for the average musician with their craft, what else is new? That was already mostly impossible for most of us, anyway. The time spent honing the craft of musicianship was time spent living an authentic human life, and that has meaning in and of itself because you actually experience it for yourself. Life isn't lived through a screen, it's lived through time spent doing something worthwhile, like making music with friends. A computer can't feel like us, so it can't really make music like us. It may replicate it, and replicate it well, but it will be men like us that carry on the torch when all this comes crashing down and people actually need to hire musicians again. And trust me, that last part will happen again, even if after our lifetimes. How did the first instrument ever get invented, anyway?
 
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