The article said, “access to OpenAI”. They didn’t even claim they are using OpenAI.

And yes, you get Microsoft’s AI called CoPilot when you buy Microsoft Office. OMG, Israel’s elite strike team has access to Clippy!

I’m not trying to dilute their involvement. It’s like IBM during the Holocaust. Are you similarly angry at Linus for not stopping Israel from using Linux? There are many distros and many are used in Israel.

Calling out “Microsoft AI is killing Palestinians” when the only evidence is Israel bought MS Office is beyond ridiculous. Meanwhile the US and Europe sells Israel food which if stopped would stop the Gaza attacks immediately.

There are companies selling bullets and you are angry with what cologne the killers purchased.

And I don’t care how smart AI and specifically LLMs are. It’s a spell checker on steroids. Acting like it’s something extraordinary that is directly killing Palestinians is ridiculous.

I don’t see how the Israeli military purchasing Microsoft Office compared to purchasing AMD CPU’s s different. They chose Microsoft for the services on an open market just like they chose Arm CPU’s. And yes Arm engineers do “deep integration” with military contractors just like Microsoft provides services.

"The documents reveal that dozens of units in the Israeli army have purchased services from Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, in recent months " https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/

Azure is used for running Microsoft Office or whatever other PC software they use.

They all “directly partner” AMD, Intel, and Arm are all deep in Israeli military.

Using AI to target strikes/etc

Image recognition was around decades before LLM’s became the new “AI”. Those weapons only function because of the Arm, AMD and Intel CPUs components What hardware is Microsoft cloud running on?

You said you boycott all of them. How are you posting a reply?

They all kill children and I boycott them all.

You know what actually supports Israel? Food imports. You should be boycotting American, Swiss, German and Dutch farm produce. Cut off their food and they can’t bomb.

Along with hundreds of other multinationals, Microsoft hosts its own research and development (R&D) centre in Israel,

Any company with an office in Israel? You boycott every large business? EVERY ONE? Apple, AMD, Intel, ARM? They are all in Israel. How are you even replying to this post without uses the CPU’s that you claim to boycott?

and he also played a crucial role in fostering Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership

AI isn’t killing children. Israeli leaders are killing children. OpenAI is super charged spell checker. Have you even used it? It fixes the grammar. It helps write software. But so did autocomplete before LLM’s.

Claiming Gates isn’t heavily involved

Are you an executive at Microsoft? Because if you aren’t YOU DON’T KNOW THAT.
https://www.techspot.com/news/107724-sources-detail-growing-rift-between-sam-altman-satya.html

Saytalla seeking advice doesn’t mean Gates is making the business decisions.

And claiming Microsoft cloud services are worse than RTX’s actual bombs that kill children is a stretch.

I’m fuzzy on the timeline but wiki says the sco Linux lawsuit was 2003. Gates had already quit being CEO in 2000.

Bill Gates hasn’t been CEO of Microsoft in 25 years. He left completely in 2008.

The problem is that the theft begins by simply becoming a billionaire in the first place.

That’s why that was my first sentence!

Why did you cut your philanthropic efforts to fight climate change and disease? Why have you and your buddies fought for minimizing

The problem is that billionaires should not exist but come on. $80 billion already donated. $7 Billion more just for Africa. Hundreds of millions in malaria research.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/11/17/bill-gates-foundation-pledges-7-billion-to-support-africa-health-and-agriculture/

Could he do more? Sure. But attacking someone who is doing a little because he isn’t doing more doesn’t seem fair.

Years ago Elon said he was disappointed when he met Bill Gates because Gates only wanted to talk about philanthropy and climate.

If there are ever free elections again and Democrats win, there must not be a “return to normal” like Biden tried.

Democrats must do everything that Trump did. Republicans must be taught about consequences. Being respectful of the office didn’t work. It only emboldened Republicans to be more deplorable.

Republicans can then campaign on the “return to normal” platform. If they want reason, they need to become the honorable party.