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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.

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[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] flandish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

its public front end was canceled. israel can still use it’s existence as a way to claim proof of its genocide is fake while others can use it to generate propaganda.

[–] modem_down@thebrainbin.org 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's still an instructive case:

  1. It was foreseeable (and, probably, foreseen by many people at Google) that the tool would be used in harmful ways.
  2. Google released it anyway

This is textbook negligence. Unjustified refusal to avoid a foreseeable harm.

That pattern of negligence is the AI boom in a nutshell.

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I wonder if they are just so careless that they don't consider any implications of what they were doing, or are they testing waters about how much reaction they receive?

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

90% chance this was “you need to add AI features or you’re going on a PIP”

[–] modem_down@thebrainbin.org 6 points 2 days ago

Fair point. Alphabet may even have decided it was a cost-effective way to generate publicity for Google Earth, which has been out of the headlines for a decade or more.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 days ago

Textbook case of "they didn't stop to think if they should".

Might have been generating more training data.