seems legit https://derspiegel.substack.com/p/german-military-deploys-ai...

for context - Der Spiegel is one of the well respected publications in the region - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Spiegel

orig in DE - https://archive.is/kt3Aa

And no other osna.fm articles submitted to this site

At least in theory, no AI is making decisions on that - just adding a summary/categorization to the applicant dossier sitting in front of the HR. Now the bigger question is, what does a normal employee do with an AI recommendation? What are you as a software developer doing with the agent recommendations?

The question could also be, is HN being targeted with bots, just like a Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook...

Human psychology isn't Newtonian physics, cultural norms are not a conserved quantity.

While technically possible, what are the chances to be targeted by such a defamation attack? We are not talking some high profile personality, just some Joe User looking for a job.

But if you want to tackle the problem proactively, it's called surveillance.

AI is a big stick: for example, how will the men in boots identify the Scientologists, if they don't first read a bit of Scientology, eh? Ah, they get an AI to do it, so that they don't need to invest the effort to understand the subject.

>Last thing I want in the hands of the Verfassungsschutz authorities is more fucking surveillance.

German culture has a long way to go to rid itself of authoritarianism; the surveillance of the state is a symptom, not the cause. German cultural paranoia ends up manifesting the very thing it seeks to resist. I'm sure there are individuals in the Verfassungsshutz who also identify as anti-fascist - its the methods, not the motive.

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You dropped the extremism part, which always implies "anti-constitutional" in these contexts and by law.

Right-wing extremism in Germany is definitely not "normal people" for the most part.

I guess you missed the "extremism" part in the title. Don't start to play down the right-wing radicalization that is happening right now. You can be right-wing, no problem with that but that current "trend" is used by the more extreme forces in these camps to try to grab onto power and that should be avoided at all cost.

There's nothing wrong with a social media presence. Just don't use it to talk about your political or social opinions.

I'm aware a lot of people can't do that, because their personality consists of being of a certain ideology and they cannot shut up about it, but it's technically possible to just have a normal-ass presence online without pushing opinions or ideology beyond professional/technical ones.

It's very simple -- this stuff is private. Your political opinions are private. Your social opinions are private. The internet isn't private.

Talk to your friends about that stuff, in person, instead.

I think in Germany it has a pretty specific meaning actually...

Are you trying to say that "remigrating all migrants from certain countries" is not actually extreme?

Contrary to what you insinuate, the indicators for right wing extremism are well-defined.[1]

[1] https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/publikationen/EN...

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Stop the Bullshit.

Right Wing Extremists in Germany are those who argue that citizens aren't really citizens because they are brown and need to be "remigrated" (despite Holding German citizenship, or even "native Germans" with the wrong political views)

They also want to use Military Weapons for this

And those who deny and continuously try to minimize and deny the crimes of the Nazis in WW2.

But somehow those right wing crybabies are also always poor little babies that are just misunderstood and the perpetual victims.

yeah you could basically go by city at this point

The original article uses right wing extermism as an example, but the description of the system translates to "constitutional fidelity". So its probably safe to assume that this will be looking for any kind of extremism that could be anti-constitutional. Always important to remember from a german perspective that it was the communists and socialists that held the line of resistance and were some of the first to be oppressed during the rise of the nazi regime, whatever your views on the politics are.

That's not very funny, and this reframing of nazis (national socialists) as left-wing because they have "socialist" in their name is an ongoing effort by right-wing populists and extremists.

It is hard to tell from your joke whether you also mean to propagate that narrative.

Socialism is not left wing extremism even from already-right default view in US. Its of course up to definition what that word actually means, but one could roughly say ie current France and Spain are socialist countries.

It normally means strong social & welfare state, massive workers protections and so on. Nordics could be also labeled as such. Economy is not that performant and often utterly lost when some bigger changes happen on markets, with corresponding economical under-performance.

For extremism, look at proper communists or neo-marxists (aka forced mass takeovers of private businesses and any non-small private properties/ownerships by state, bloody revolution & rule by proletariat aka new elites). There is not much economic performance to speak of.