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

[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