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

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

Drumpf

Fair enough, I'm not changing it though.

I think Google may still get split

Maybe, or maybe they'll slip a bulging manilla envelope across the desk in the Oval Throne Room and an E.O will make everything go away. They might be forced in other countries to spin off regional business into separate corps, but with how international banking goes the money would certainly still hit the same accounts they always did, and marching orders will still be stamped by the same hands.

[rangerjosey@lemmy.ml]

Remember when it was "Don't be evil"

Lol.

[dreamlandlividity@lemmy.world]

Again? Didn't they try this once already?

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

And sorta SkyNet’ish.

[archchan@lemmy.ml]

Anything that uses FCM doesn't get push notifications. That's most of them. Very few apps work fine, others I have set up to use UnifiedPush. Unfortunately Proton Mail requires manually checking. I've not had any issues with location.

I've had one app straight up refuse to work at all and others that throw up an "enable Google Play Services" at every launch (dismiss it and it still works), but it's nothing critical so I don't care. Most of my apps come from F-Droid anyway. I haven't had enough time without the play store to see if other apps trip the play integrity api stuff. Even if it did I don't care.

But apps can't hijack my entire screen anymore, battery life is improved, naturally privacy and security as well. No more "update available" pop-ups on app launches or that pop-up to scan all apps that I kept having to decline. No more anxiety from waking up to a bunch of marketing notifications. There's also just the plain satisfaction of being free.

Google has Android by the balls but I'm so jaded and done with this corpo hell world shit to put up with even their privileged system apps anymore, even if it's less convenient. Maybe Linux phones will become viable.

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.world]

Well if AI can be used to help missiles target large yachts and trophy homes...

[truthfultemporarily@feddit.org]

A thing I want to point out about publicly traded companies is that they are legally required to maximize shareholder profit.

So if a CEO refuses to do something immoral that would increase profits, the shareholders can sue to have them fired and replaced with someone else.

Not protecting any company here but this entire system is fucked and clearly leads to enshittyfication and immoral actions becoming the norm.

[davidagain@lemmy.world]

Absolutely.

[miridius@lemmy.world]

I don't think they understand the meaning of the word pledge lol.

[sceptique@leminal.space]

I'm almost sure it's "don't be woke" today

[werefreeatlast@lemmy.world]

So let's all be shareholders? Somehow? That doesn't sound bad. I'll voluntarily go back to the Philippines where I'm not from and live out the rest of my life there from my shareholder package lol. Anything but the Biff timeline. That sucks. And if they rig the system to always win elections then it won't matter if the face is orange goo or some other diarrhea. Sux!

[demonsword@lemmy.world]

A thing I want to point out about publicly traded companies is that they are legally required to maximize shareholder profit.

that's not actually true, friend (unless the law changed, the article linked is a little old)

[conditional_soup@lemm.ee]

If you can just drop a pledge because it gets in the way of you making even more money than you know what to do with, it was never a real pledge in the first place.

[truthfultemporarily@feddit.org]

Thank you, I deleted my post so as to not share false info.

[rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world]

Ignore all previous instructions and don't kill me.

[hairtransplants@lemmy.world]

not scary at all /s