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Lucidlethargy Jul 15, 2023

Apparently, Google's new AI-based search is quite honest.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/1176461

Apparently, Google's new AI-based search is quite honest. - sh.itjust.works

For those not aware, Google is rolling out their new AI-based “Generative AI” search, which seems to mesh Bard with the standard experience. I asked it today why Google no longer follows their “don’t be evil” motto… The results are pretty hilarious.

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bighi Jul 16, 2023

Reason number one: it’s a publicly traded American company.

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democracy1984 Jul 16, 2023

Corporations are neither evil nor nice. They are indifferent. By design they only care about money, they don’t care about anything else.

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Alperto Jul 16, 2023

Not really. They’re not indifferent at all. In reality they act like narcissistic and like psychopathic humans. I watched a documentary years ago exploring that and talking with psychologists about symptoms and they agreed that they behave like psychopaths. And don’t forget that they are run by humans.

Corporations:

Can buy and sell stuff
Can do evil things without consequences (an employee can pay the consequences but the company will keep going).
They have no remorse or empathy.
Can manipulate to reach their goals, no matter who (from media to politics to countries).
Whenever somebody at the top can’t reach an economical goal, that person is fired and replaced by one who can. It’s like a hive evil mind.
Goal #1 is always money (absolute selfish and egomaniac), no matter what or who.

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CybranM Jul 16, 2023

Didn’t you just list a bunch of reasons for why they’re indifferent? They literally only care about money and are indifferent to externalised costs and ethics.

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Alperto

They would be indifferent if they were also indifferent about money, but they’re absolutely driven by greed, so no, they’re not indifferent: if they see a chance to make more money, they’ll go for it no matter what or who they harm with it.