Kylo83
macrumors 603
If you don’t like Israeli tech, stop using your phone and MacBook then, practice what you preach, the anti semetic comments on here just because the word Israel is mentioned shows us Jews why we need Israel.
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jennyp
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To understand "silent speech"? One step closer to ThoughtCrime Pro?
Quu
macrumors 68040
Since they paid 2 Billion for this startup they would have seen the technology working and done a lot of validation of their claims. Which makes me excited because it sounds fantastical.
This is disheartening because it has been well-established by many reputable human rights groups (and journalists) that much of Israel's technological edge is because it routinely field-tests its inventions on the millions of occupied people under its control who don't have the right to vote or to provide consent for having these technologies tested on them. These mainly include weapons systems as well as AI innovations meant to surveil, build algorithms for, and target them.
I remember prior to our current era of maximum graft, Apple notably had one of the smallest Washington lobbyist operations in Silicon Valley. But Orange Man upended all that and now some poor chump at Apple Industrial Design has to design and fabricate a literal participation trophy for Tim to present to the felon in the Oval O.
They keep partnering with the wrong AIs. Grok would've been better. Been using supergrok and it's changed my life man. Truly outstanding stuff.
ProbablyDylan
macrumors 68040
Huh. Maybe they took my point of "people don't want to talk to computers" in wholly the wrong way.
Criticizing a country's govt is not the same as criticizing a religion. There's a HUGE diff. And Israel hasn't gone anywhere. Anyone who supports the atrocities by that gov is free to visit the country any time.
You complain about Apple products all the time and yet refuse to move on to Android. No preaching. Just stating.
Hey look, someone ELSE who doesn’t understand the distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism
Kylo83
macrumors 603
Hey look someone that has no idea what the word Zionist actually means
Didn't the ADL just state Grok to be the most anti-semitic of all time? Why would anyone want that on their devices?
Hoo boy. I'm not judging, but doing that level of business with an Israel based startup is not going to do anything to help their image as of late with many.
From Britannica:
Zionism, Jewish nationalist movement with the goal of the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine
Yes, regardless of what an unsavory group like the ADL says, Grok is pretty disturbing with lots of antisemitism and other gross traits...
Sad that you can't go anywhere online because of the political trolls. I have not being coming to MacRumors.com for sometime because everything is about some political thing in the comments. I was excited to read about a tech acquisition and it turns into political rhetoric comments. I wanted to see people's opinion about the tech possibilities and such. But, instead instant whining about political items. I assume this post was put in the "Political News" section because of the comments section or did MR put it here at the start?
alexandr
macrumors 603
From the start it seems. And they also delete comments that point to that. Out of all the comments to be deleted on this thread, that is.
goobot
macrumors 604
It’s amazing how anti-Israel people are but they don’t seem to care about all the atrocities other countries commit
Incredible. A post about Apple making a huge AI acquisition has to go in the political forum because of the country the company is from. I didn't even notice that in the post until the comments. Why does everything have to be so politicized.
No discussion at all about why Apple might think this company is worth $2 billion, whether any of this will show up in currently existing iPhones, what this means for their decimated AI division, none of that?
No discussion at all about why Apple might think this company is worth $2 billion, whether any of this will show up in currently existing iPhones, what this means for their decimated AI division, none of that?
ginkobiloba
macrumors 6502a
What we don't need on the other hand is genociding an entire population for that.
Agent007
macrumors 6502
lol they're a mess. A Hail Mary in the 4th quarter PUN INTENDED: Apple's bean counters are scared because their numbers come out later this afternoon.
TokyoKiller
macrumors 6502
Most of those countries don't go around telling everyone they "are the only democracy in the Middle East" or many other things that come out of there that do not align with the actions the country commits in the region and to people it occupies.
And I can be sure that most people are appalled at what's happening in the US and ICE, so no it's not Israel or anti this or that. It's about pointing out when something is wrong or hypocritical.