Google, a brief history

2004: Don’t be evil
2018: OK, be evil but at least don’t kill people
2025: Fuck it, kill people

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/google-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html

#Google #BigTech #AI #SiliconValley #USA #capitalism #fascism

Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons

The tech giant has unveiled an update to its AI principles, which removes references to not pursuing work on weapons and surveillance.

The Independent
@aral I feel like every US tech corporation or personality sooner or later gravitates towards the "defense" (!) industry…
@eliasp The line must go up

@aral yep the history of the #dotcons

On this subject, i when to the temple of the #deathcult tonight for wine and nibbles https://hamishcampbell.com/worshipping-at-the-temple-of-the-deathcult-the-business-class-and-its-myths/

Worshipping at the Temple of the #Deathcult: The Business Class and Its Myths – Hamish Campbell

@aral
THAT'S enshittification!
(To the tune of "That's Entertainment"!)
🎶🎵🎶
@aral @mahryekuh Making money in the classroom and on the battlefield. 🤢
@aral Hmm... This must be why their stock was down 8% today.
@aral How long before eff it, causing genocide is perfectly fine!
Google reportedly worked directly with Israel’s military on AI tools

The company raced to beat Amazon to sell AI tools to the IDF, while publicly denying its involvement with Israel’s military.

The Verge

@aral I don't know why, but I am surprised that has already happened. Although, right now trump is suggesting taking over Gaza and ethnically cleansing the location, removing the people there and putting them somewhere else.

Good lord... That man child, has brain damage and honestly, the only place he would be welcomed in a justice universe is actual hell.

Which btw, colbert's writers joked about the only place that the trump family would be welcomed would be hell with one of their digital shorts. It was how you say... amusing and accurate to the utter most perfect level if that's even possible. It had satan putting two thumbs up next to a sign that said hell.

I agree with Colbert on that. Trump is after all pure evil. But because he is so damn stupid I have trouble hating him. I guess because I don't know why anyone takes such a buffoon seriously when he is so damn fake? Pun intended. :)

@skedarwarrior Don’t forget, people laughed at Hitler too. You don’t have to be smart to be dangerous.
@aral Hadn't known that. Was he as dumb as trump though? I find that hard to swallow if so.

@skedarwarrior @aral
From the attached:
"Hitler’s own Press Secretary talked about how dumb he was. He laid about until 11am, when he might finally decide to work. He spent the “morning”, now afternoon, scanning the papers for mentions of his name. And, let me tell you, he was getting talked about a lot."

Sound familiar?
🤔
https://michaelmctighe.medium.com/how-and-why-we-delude-ourselves-into-thinking-that-hitler-was-smart-c3d0e560f3a0

How and Why we Delude Ourselves Into Thinking that Hitler was smart.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, famed (former) psychologist, the only Daily Wire employee sadly absent from Lady Ballers (apparently he is in the post credit scene I did not watch), and very serious person…

Medium
@clintruin @aral Was he as dumb as trump though? That's the question...
@skedarwarrior @aral
Well, it's impossible to say for sure...but one has to wonder about the invasion of Russia and a war on three fronts.

@clintruin @aral He had to have been clever in some part of his mind, or he wouldn't have been able to cause so much destruction.

Though you could say the same for trump potentially.

I wonder though if Hitler was going on about movie characters being real and dead at the same time... or suggesting bleach as a cure to known pandemics. I wonder if Hitler had his equivalent stupidity to trump. I mean its like madness all the stuff trump has said.

Its good to know hearing him doesn't cause brain damage.

Because if so, I would have lost half my brain cells by now.

xD

@skedarwarrior @aral
I see your point...but it should be remembered Hitler was dead by 56 years of age. Hitler wasn't going on about movie characters being real and not real...but he was going on about troop units that were dead being real. He did not suggest bleach could be a cure, but did believe the Earth was hollow.
And Donald Trump may or may not be suffering from elderly dementia. In the final analysis...Hitler was a bigot, Donald Trump is a bigot.

Bigotry, racism, hate...low IQ shit.

@skedarwarrior @aral
"He had to have been clever in some part of his mind, or he wouldn't have been able to cause so much destruction.

Though you could say the same for trump potentially."

🤔
It takes very little brains to push a button.
☠️

@clintruin @aral True if that's all he was doing. But alas, he also was manipulating many people. A negative skill for sure, but a skill nonetheless.

@clintruin @aral Yeah true, both are bigots, both are haters, both are racists. The main skills they have are as follows:

reading a room
manipulating people
lying

Some of those require a skill set, but its not one anyone should want to be really good at since its a negative skill set.

@aral Alright. That's it. I was 🤏 this close to leaving Google. I just needed that extra push. This is it.
#BoycottGoogle #AIWeaponization #DoNoEvilYeahRight
@aral ad revenue dropping , let’s become part of the military complex

When Google changed their motto from "Don't be evil" to "do the right thing":

@aral

@aral that's it. no more mr nice megacorp
@aral Everything old is new again.

@aral
1. Don't be evil.
2. Don't be evil if you can possibly help it.
3. There are only two acceptable ways to be evil.
4. Sorry, make that twenty-six.
5. Yes, we know we said we wouldn't be evil, but life is complex.

/continues

@aral
6. We actually said we wouldn't be evil if we could possibly help it.
7. We are aware some people describe our behaviours as evil, but we do not recognise that characterisation.
8. Actually, being evil has advantages and improves stockholder value.
9. Have you met my buddies Donald and Elon?
10. All your bases are belong to us.
@aral reminds of aerospace companies working in both consumer and military markets, military market is more stable even during economy downturns which can bring stability.
@aral @Saltssaltgirl I understand people not trusting Microsoft. I understand people not trusting Apple. I do NOT understand people not trusting Microsoft and Apple but still trusting Google. And that’s been true for years.

People who feel like Google is “the good one” are remembering a Google that hasn’t existed for well over a decade (and was largely mythical even then).
@aral i didnt know pledges were something one dropped whenever one felt like.
@angozi @aral I pledged not to toot after midnight, but here I am...
@aral @catarinac
This is breaking isaac asimov first rule "thy shalt not harm a human"
False, It starts to kill people during pandemic, to earn money, or rather, to not stop earning money, G has never or almost never blocked so many videos with disinformation that have contributed to killing people, I have lost friends and relatives because of these videos full of murderous fake news.
I always thought "Don't be evil" was meant toward users instead of a company slogan