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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 2 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 2 months ago

1984 "Are you Sarah Connor?"

[–] Lugh 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.