Google has dropped its promise not to use AI for weapons. It’s part of a troubling trend.
Google has dropped its promise not to use AI for weapons. It’s part of a troubling trend.
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?

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.
51 0 Reply“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.”
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Google: 'I am bored, today lets make ourselves a legitimate target in a war'.
27 0 Replydont trust your cherished family photos with google, lest a bomb falls on their hq and you lose everything.
1 0 ReplyI 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.
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Don'tBe Evil.19 0 ReplyDamn...all this time I thought Google had integrity.
13 0 ReplyWhat 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.
12 0 ReplyHumans continue to exist. It's part of a troubling trend.
4 0 ReplyMaybe relevant Anime:
Terminator: Zero
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