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Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

We use AI models processed on-device

If it’s opt-in, and the processing is done on-device, then I have no reason to be outraged.

But the skeptic in me asks “what’s in it for google?”.

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BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
They get a new feature to boast about

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stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is common for companies that like to hire PhDs.

PhDs like to work on interesting and challenging projects.

With nobody to reign them in, they do all kinds of cool stuff that makes no money (e.g. Intel Optane and transactional memory).

Designing a realtime scam analysis tool with resource constraints is interesting enough to be greenlit but makes no money.

Once released, they’ll move on to the next big challenge, and when nobody is there to maintain their work, it will be silently dropped by Google.

I’m willing to bet more than 70% of the Google graveyard comes from projects like these.

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- btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  With nobody to reign them in, they do all kinds of cool stuff
  
  And they never ever ask themselves “Is this ethically the right thing to do”. And so they create things that do way more harm for society than good. For selfish reasons, just because it is a “fun” project.
  
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plyth@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Like always, google is doing things for free to get training data.

All things are going into an authoritarian direction which needs control of the opposition. Google will have the infrastructure to identify people with opposing mindsets. There won’t be a rebellion if the rebel leaders can be locked up in time.

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- btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  All things are going into an authoritarian direction which needs control of the opposition.
  
  Now that we don’t have a real president anymore Google started including white house announcements in Google News. I know every one of these is written by an idiot who is not qualified for their job so I turned them off. But why the fuck didn’t you do this back when we actually had a real president and these announcements were legitimate newsworthy information? Fuck you google!
  
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