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Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch
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phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
echodot@feddit.uk 40 minutes ago
Like my organization that pledged to be 100% renewable energy based by 2025 and they promised that right up until early 2024, where it suddenly disappeared from the internal website, and now no one talks about it.
But in fairness they made absolutely zero progress towards this goal in the previous 4 years, so it was pretty obvious they never really meant it anyway.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Every corporate pledge ends with “unless we can monetise it”.
thisismyname@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
For some reason I’m just seeing a headline with no hyperlink. Here’s the link if anyone else has the same issue
BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 10 hours ago
Yea, it’s just the title and no link. To the top with you for the source!
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The canary has died.
Kite@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
The canary died back when they removed “don’t be evil”. I think the canary was just resurrected as a Horizon Zero Dawn mech canary.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
didn’t they remove “do no evil” a long time ago, too?
Ulrich@feddit.org 10 hours ago
No.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Um, yes?
Following Google’s corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took “Do the right thing” as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct. The original motto was retained in Google’s code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. Between April 21st and May 4th of 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct’s preface and retained in its last sentence.
Between 21 April and 4 May 2018, Google removed the motto from the preface, leaving a mention in the final line: “And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!”
fluxion@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Corporations are people, my friend.
Sociopathic people.
kryptonidas@lemmings.world 8 hours ago
The Google Graveyard will be littered with the bodies of people now. Fuck them, move to something better for the world.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 6 hours ago
This clearly means the AI will be used for fire solutions and guidance, right?
^Not^ ^threat^ ^detection^ ^and^ ^target^ ^identification,^ ^right?^
FolknForage@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
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FolknForage@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
- Groucho Marx
seven_phone@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I remember when the motto was do no evil, now it is we promise not to make killer robots.
davidagain@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Not any more, they don’t!
seven_phone@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
How about domestic then, we promise not to make domestic killer robots for urban pacification, read control. Unless the domestic population requires it of course. Or we deem it necessary ourselves, or we feel like it. Your compliance with this message is assumed by the act of reading it.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Of course they would
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Well yeah, gotta be open to those sweet
defenseoffense contracts. All those brown people on the other side of the world ain’t gunna kill themselves!MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Other side of the world? arstechnica.com/…/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ens…
DigDoug@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Don’t be evilcupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Can we check and compare with archive.org?
Die4Ever@programming.dev 3 hours ago
OP please edit your post to put the link in correctly techcrunch.com/…/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use…
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Maybe they should change their name to “Pacific Bell” something fitting like that. Or AT&T. Or Maybe something a little more adjusted to their near future… “Blockbuster”
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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Don’tbe evil”Ulrich@feddit.org 10 hours ago
B-b-but the corporations promised!
DrFistington@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
They’re trying to fix that Q4 earnings report already…
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 7 hours ago
And looking to get some of that sweet AI money President Musk and VP Trump are giving out to I’m sure.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Does Google not know what a “pledge” is?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I pledge, to do the thing, that makes the red line go up. Profits go BRRRRRRR. Human lives go…away when we kill them all. But profits go BRRRRRR!!!
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
If there’s a conflict and I get to choose whether or not the side I’m on has killbots, I’ll definitely choose killbots. Especially if the enemy has them.
Saleh@feddit.org 2 hours ago
This is not about kill bots. This is about defining you as a terrorist threat to the US empire because you are friends with someone who criticised them on the internet. And they will wait to bomb you until you are home, so your family is also murdered along side you.
en.wikipedia.org/…/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G…
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
lnxtx@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
RIP
Killed by Google [AI]
davidagain@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
When they removed their “don’t be evil” motto, I thought it was hilariously bad optics but probably came from some misguided thinking that if they stopped talking about the potential for evil, people would stop wondering whether they had bad motives and needed the motto to keep straight.
It became clearer and clearer that they removed the motto because they felt it was holding them back from greater profits and was skewing employee behaviours in ways they didn’t want and bringing up objections to policy ideas that they wanted to avoid. It was never about the optics, it was about the profits.
Now, when Google removes a pledge not to make portable killer AIs and skynet, you have to accept that it’s because they see making portable killer AIs and skynet as hugely profitable for them, and they don’t want any good intentions or moral behaviour getting in the way of that profit.