Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch

[kryptonidas@lemmings.world]

The Google Graveyard will be littered with the bodies of people now. Fuck them, move to something better for the world.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

Don't be evil.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

I pledge, to do the thing, that makes the red line go up. Profits go BRRRRRRR. Human lives go......away when we kill them all. But profits go BRRRRRR!!!!

[timlovestech@badatbeing.social]

And looking to get some of that sweet AI money President Musk and VP Trump are giving out to I'm sure.

[angryrobot@lemmy.world]

The canary has died.

[lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml]

Well yeah, gotta be open to those sweet defense offense contracts. All those brown people on the other side of the world ain't gunna kill themselves!

[peoplebeproblems@midwest.social]

This clearly means the AI will be used for fire solutions and guidance, right?

^Not^ ^threat^ ^detection^ ^and^ ^target^ ^identification,^ ^right?^

[seven_phone@lemmy.world]

I remember when the motto was do no evil, now it is we promise not to make killer robots.

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

Other side of the world?
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/

[kite@sh.itjust.works]

The canary died back when they removed "don't be evil". I think the canary was just resurrected as a Horizon Zero Dawn mech canary.

[fluxion@lemmy.world]

Corporations are people, my friend.

Sociopathic people.

[folknforage@lemm.ee]

“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.”

• Groucho Marx

[folknforage@lemm.ee]

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[werefreeatlast@lemmy.world]

Maybe they should change their name to "Pacific Bell" something fitting like that. Or AT&T. Or Maybe something a little more adjusted to their near future... "Blockbuster"

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

We pledge this until we change our mind

Every large corporation ever

[davidagain@lemmy.world]

When they removed their "don't be evil" motto, I thought it was hilariously bad optics but probably came from some misguided thinking that if they stopped talking about the potential for evil, people would stop wondering whether they had bad motives and needed the motto to keep straight.

It became clearer and clearer that they removed the motto because they felt it was holding them back from greater profits and was skewing employee behaviours in ways they didn't want and bringing up objections to policy ideas that they wanted to avoid. It was never about the optics, it was about the profits.

Now, when Google removes a pledge not to make portable killer AIs and skynet, you have to accept that it's because they see making portable killer AIs and skynet as hugely profitable for them, and they don't want any good intentions or moral behaviour getting in the way of that profit.

[die4ever@programming.dev]

OP please edit your post to put the link in correctly https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/

[davidagain@lemmy.world]

Not any more, they don't!

[phr34ky@lemmy.world]

Every corporate pledge ends with "unless we can monetise it".

[saleh@feddit.org]

This is not about kill bots. This is about defining you as a terrorist threat to the US empire because you are friends with someone who criticised them on the internet. And they will wait to bomb you until you are home, so your family is also murdered along side you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_Gaza_Strip
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/