Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)"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.
From @daveyalba
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“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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“Silicon Valley as a whole is still wrestling with how to reconcile competitive pressures with safety.”
➡️Are they though? It seems to me that those in charge (i.e. VCs and C-suite execs) are really only interested in competition (for $$).
“But ChatGPT’s remarkable debut meant that by early this year, there was no turning back.”
➡️False. We turned back from lead in gasoline. We turned back from ozone-destroying CFCs. We can turn back from text synthesis machines.
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Lorry@emilymbender Safety for most of these companies, is at best a tick box on various legal compliance forms.
#TrustAndSafety is a ridiculous name for the function, when there's zero #trust in any of these companies and the #safety aspect mostly depends on who designed and manages the triage systems or policy nuances.
So much of my role as a T&S leader has been fighting with execs who are actively & wilfully ignorant about safety or #risk They only ever briefly care when there are bad headlines.