"The trusted internet-search giant is providing low-quality information in a race to keep up with the competition," --- this phrasing makes it starkly clear that it's a race to nowhere good.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-19/google-bard-ai-chatbot-raises-ethical-concerns-from-employees

From @daveyalba

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Google Bard AI Chatbot Raises Ethical Concerns From Employees

The search giant is making compromises on misinformation and other harms in order to catch up with ChatGPT, workers say

Bloomberg

“The group working on ethics that Google pledged to fortify is now disempowered and demoralized, the current and former workers said.”

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Google’s leaders decided that as long as it called new products “experiments,” the public might forgive their shortcomings, the employees said.

➡️We don’t tolerate “experiments” that pollute the natural ecosystem and we shouldn’t tolerate those that pollute the information ecosystem either.

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@emilymbender There's a long and ugly tradition of "experiments" performed without disclosure or consent. Tuskegee stands out as an example.

@phil_stevens @emilymbender

The Tuskegee experiments ended in 1972.

Experimenting on prisoners continues. Here's an example from COVID era:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/14/arkansas-prison-covid-19-ivermectin-experiment-minorities-medical-abuse

Arkansas jail’s ivermectin experiments recall historical medical abuse of imprisoned minorities

The exploitation reflects America’s longstanding history of medically abusing vulnerable communities of color

The Guardian