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How OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine

https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona/
36•rzk•1h ago

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throwaway911282•1h ago
that's the worst website ever.

So Anthropic partners with Palantir and now we have this..

rw_panic0_0•59m ago
the music choice bro...
bob1029•58m ago
Ah yes. Forcing the user to interact so you can make them listen to trash music. Excellent web design tactic.
gambiting•44m ago
>>so you can make them listen to trash music

The music is awesome, I left the page open in the background so I can listen to it. It's just gameboy-era chiptunes.

tw1984•57m ago
We all need to be extremely happy for the fact that AI is not controlled by people like Altman.
throwaway911282•56m ago
And Dario?
tw1984•50m ago
Dario is like 10x better than Altman.
saubeidl•57m ago
Remember how they were spreading propaganda about a supposed Chinese "social credit score" dystopia?

It was aspirational projection. That is what the American oligarchy is trying to build.

1984 is coming to the west.

jasonvorhe•50m ago
Have yet to meet a Chinese who doesn't start laughing if you ask them about it because it's just stupid propaganda.
notachatbot123•56m ago
autoplaying_music+cat_chasing_my_mouse_cursor+lowercaseeverything+no_short_summary_upfront_tl;dr?
waffleiron•53m ago
Reminder of the HN guidelines for commenting, as the majority of comments just talks about the design of the page at the moment:

In Comments

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

lambdas•53m ago
Online safety act passed in the uk on 26/10/2023, aligning suspiciously close with the mysterious advent of OpenAI’s screening tool
dev1ycan•51m ago
I avoid anything with persona on it like wildfire.
jamiepond•43m ago
great dystopian music choice <3
b112•16m ago
How is this even upvoted. It's the most offensive website since ICQ.

Music blaring, things bouncing in front of text, and the link goes a page that says nothing about OpenAI.

vmfunc•6m ago
author here. currently in touch with persona's CEO as mentioned on twitter, part 2 and 3 coming soon. i understand the criticism on the design of the site but it has no place here on hackernews. the content is what matters. i designed my website to be an experience rather than sanitized white on black minimalist slop, whether you like it or not is completely fair, then just use reading mode in your browser.

Agent37

https://www.agent37.com
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