Google is on the Wrong Side of History
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Google continues to show us why it chose to abandon its old motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” as it becomes more and more enmeshed with the military-industrial complex. Most recently, Google has removed four key points from its AI principles. Specifically, it previously read that the company would not...
  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    To be more specific, Google is destroying value to generate profit.

    Google’s value comes from people using it, relying on it, and not opposing it too much when Google wants to do something. For that you need trust; and while well-informed people already didn’t trust Google to die properly, now even the general public is catching up.

    And, sure, making weapons is damn profitable! Except that Google’s participation relies on its "A"I models. And you’re going to have a hard time training those models once everyone and their dog runs tools like Nepenthes and Nightshade, designed to screw up with your bot training.

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Google, Microsoft, Apple, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. The list goes on & on. People need to call all of them out. When you just target one it only gives space for ones that are already really bad to get worse.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Honestly I’m not sure what is even happening at Google any more. Used to they made some great products what also were spyware. Now it is shit products that are spyware.