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Palantir is an AI firm now? Thought it was a data collection/spyware firm.

I like to think of Palantir as JIRA or salesforce for killing people.

All AI companies are spyware companies.

  spyware

Why is Palantir a spyware company, but Snowflake or Databricks are not? "Spyware" has an actual definition, and there are real companies that sell it, like Pegasus. It's not some catch-all term for what people call "evil".

If they're not a spyware company then they really super duper picked the wrong name. Maybe they were just going for evil, in which case ... well I'm glad NYC hospitals have dropped them and I hope many, many more companies and organizations choose the same path.

The point is why are they suddenly an "AI" firm, not to debate the fine meanings of spyware.

Are the other spyware companies that you mention in your post also rebranding as "AI" firms?

> Palantir is an AI firm now?

Of course. Everyone is an AI firm now.

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