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@JarMomErika
2 days ago
My guess is Thorn is some sort of money laundering scheme. I’d be interested in whether Scientology is financially tied up in Kutcher’s businesses.
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@itscjhey
2 days ago
I would not be shocked at alllll, we all know how much $cientology love their $$$
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@geewizlana
2 days ago
Oh you know it!
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@NUFAN1313
2 days ago
I'm also wondering if they're selling pictures and videos of people who didn't consent.
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@syyneater
2 days ago
@NUFAN1313 I wouldn’t be surprised. I’d also bet they keep anything they happen to find during auditing to themselves so they can keep control of the person victimizing children.
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@thismesswecall…
2 days ago
It's also tied to Palantir.
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@Codename_Thumblesteen
2 days ago (edited)
Computer engineer here. I can outright state that thorn is a scam, because one thing I work with regularly is data science, and what Thorn describes is pure science fiction. There's no way for a machine to "detect" child abuse. Not even humans seem particularly good at it given what crime statistics are. All that's gonna happen is the same thing that always happens with automoderation. It's going to flood the channels with useless false positives, mire law enforcement/sysadmins in an endless review period and likely make it easier for abusers to get away with things.
Personally I think Thorn is a data harvester. Data is kind of useful, in the same way that tin was useful in the bronze age. We don't use it for everything, but it still very much defines technology. It is valuable, thankfully it's also is a massive bubble as the data is more superstition than science. User data doesn't actually say much about human behaviour, and give surprisingly superficial insights.
So, all in all, Thorn will likely cause a lot of abuse, but it will also help ruin the made up data economy. After that we can go back to using data for good things again. Like science.
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Also on a sidenote, I do like how Ashton is seen as this genius tech investor guy in the US, and the moment he goes to Europe and talks to actual smart people, they're all saying what I'm saying. That's funny.
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Also the more I think about the weird fixation with homomorphic encryption and the list of bad guys in Thorn, I'm wondering if it's not designed to give them copies of any bad materials they find. Because that would explain why they want to focus on encryption. It would make their own data operations opaque as well.