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Google drops pledge on AI use for weapons (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] Jiggs@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Originally "Dont be evil"

2015 "Do the right thing"

2025 "Drop the act, just follow money"

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

1984 "Are you Sarah Connor?"

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The American Big Tech companies are sowing the seeds of their own downfall by embracing the current US administration's Orwellian agenda. Much of the world will turn against them and their technology - Europe already explicitly is - and at home when times change, they will be remembered as Vichy-like collaborators for their betrayal of democracy.