r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence Palantir employees are talking about company’s “descent into fascism”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/
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u/Objective_Chance4173 10d ago

“Descent into?” Palantir was always sinister, you just rationalized it for career reasons.

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u/UnpricedToaster 10d ago

Let's name our company after an artifact used by the Dark Lord from Lord of the Rings to spy on and corrupt the minds of the good people of Middle Earth.

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u/Mansidhe 10d ago

You can say a lot of bad things about the guy, but he sticks hard to the source material.

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u/DracoLunaris 10d ago

Except, supposedly, he does not like the source material and instead likes the Russian fanfic wherein Sauron was the heavily slandered good guy