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"Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language mode…
That was a sad read. Every single thing has come true and Google could have been on the forefront of stopping it and creating an AI that was good. Nope. They just lite fire to the canaries. In reality Google is and all the other AIs are just a symptom of the real problem. Corprate greed enshitifying every aspect of our lives.
There was a time when Google was Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory of tech, founders got rich and pissed off in 2015, wall st started to corrupt them in 2009ish.
That was a sad read. Every single thing has come true and Google could have been on the forefront of stopping it and creating an AI that was good. Nope. They just lite fire to the canaries. In reality Google is and all the other AIs are just a symptom of the real problem. Corprate greed enshitifying every aspect of our lives.
There was a time when Google was Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory of tech, founders got rich and pissed off in 2015, wall st started to corrupt them in 2009ish.
Wall St institute investors ruin everything.
Nah Google was always evil, we were just victims of aspd abuse.