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IBM amplified the death and destruction of the holocaust by assisting the nazis with a more efficient process to find Jewish people.
The guy that ran the company through this period was named Watson - their AI offering today is named after him... the guy that greenlit the nazi stuff - This world is a fucking joke.
Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
IBM Watson is a computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language. It was developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson was named after IBM's founder and first CEO, industrialist Thomas J. Watson. The computer system was initially developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy!
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