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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Adam Cook@emilymbender This is exactly the same thing #Tesla with its automated driving products…
Falsely portrays the vehicles as capable of “self-driving”, but slaps a “Beta” label on it in an attempt to shirk from any real responsibility.
And automotive safety regulators could care less… so far at least.
Funny how all these various companies are converging on the same basic wrongdoings.