Google has dropped its promise not to use AI for weapons. It’s part of a troubling trend
theconversation.com
Other big tech companies such as Meta and OpenAI have also recently allowed for more military uses of AI. So why is this happening now?
  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    If you believed any promises from Google in the past 15 years I have some insurance I would like to sell you.

    A corporate promise is worth shit.

    • b161English
      23·
      2 months ago

      “We promise not to do the thing until we think we can get away with it or if it just becomes too profitable not to.”

    • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      dont trust your cherished family photos with google, lest a bomb falls on their hq and you lose everything.

      • Mossheart@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I mean, the data centers aren’t going to be on prem, they’ll have more than one and distributed across regions.

        Don’t trust your cherished family photos with Google lest they use them to train their AI models or provide them as facial rec training data for military purposes now.

        • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          i mean, if you are attacking google might as well target their data centers.

  • Swordgeek@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    What trend? Lying about being noble while trying to destroy everything in their way?

    They’ve been doing that for 25 years now. It’s not a trend, it’s a business model.