i could be mistaken but wasn’t this one of several investigations into Musk owned companies which was halted after the inauguration?
There were so many investigations against tech bros stopped in 2025, it’s hard to keep it all straight.
no control or support structures to address their problems
this is a real unmet need. but propping up AI chat bots as the solution, instead of structural changes is somewhat self-defeating. getting people to become dependent on chat bots is exactly the profit model these unethical corporations are counting on.
why are they hosting it on the fucking Internet? I just don’t understand the lack of concern for safety. a few years ago leading experts said AI is an existential threat, but I guess after enough rounds of investor funding, the risks magically all disappeared?!
not disagreeing with your point but just wanted to bring attention to this…
the overproduction of food (beef, pork, alfalfa, tree nuts, mono cultures in general) is precisely what’s driving multi-crises and mass extinction.
yes, there’s a lot of food, which capitalists then commodify and export globally for their own enrichment. workers don’t own the means of food production and food distribution, as you point out, is managed poorly (or not managed at all).
but at what cost? topsoil degradation. dependency on fertilizers. river and streams becoming irreversiblly polluted. overfishing the oceans. insects and birds going extinct at accelerated rates. loss of biodiversity. unfathomable levels of carbon emissions. worker exploitation. growing inequality.
the agricultural industry is pretty fucking evil. we shouldn’t be talking about food production as some great untapped resource when it’s literally contributing to ecocide and climate catastrophy.
we have to change how food is produced to actually be less productive because modern agricultural practices are killing the planet and contributing to the immiseration of the 99%.
reducing the production levels would reduce the amount of food, which in turn reduces the size of the population that can be supported.
to be clear; human lives are not a virus, people are not problematic. modern food production methods are problematic though and changing them should be a parallel goal to reducing world hunger.
the hardware, I’ve heard many speculate, is for collecting data needed to power embodied AI (actual robots).
so far, US-based “AI” has focused largely on LLMs and disembodied “intelligence”. this is just interacting with screens. but getting their proprietary AI models into a real body that moves in the real world (using motors, balance, gyroscopes, accelerometers) will require a ton of training data.
might be bullshit. who knows. either way the goals of AI companies is all the same imo: create perfect slaves to replace workers.