Despite employees urging Google not to move forward, the tech giant has reportedly signed a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) allowing its AI models to be used for classified work.
According to The Information, citing a source familiar with the matter, the agreement gives the DoD the ability to use Google’s AI for “any lawful government purpose.”
Pretty sure Google management doesn’t give a fuck what their replaceable employees think.
Yeah i was thinking “oh nooo not employee backlash, what are they gonna doooo”…
Just fucking chop the fascists head off with a machete, because that actually works. Fair warning though, this is probably illegal in your state ^^
“Be evil.”
And the Calcutta pick me strikes again.
C’mon disgruntled GOOG employee. You know what you need to do. And you can get rich with put options a few weeks before you do it.
Protip to Google employees: if you’re going to protest, do an actual protest instead of whatever this performative crap was.
We need a lot more of them to join https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/ .
The biggest action I know of was the Women’s walkout in 2018, about 20k employees. But, no persistent action and no escalation, so no real result.
LMAO a hunger strike in front of companies who literally don’t give a shit if you live or die.
I think the scariest thing about Artificial Intelligence is the absolute fucking basement-dwelling, fart-sniffing, booger-eating, antisocial narcissists with zero ability to empathize with other human beings developing and “training” it. They spend their lives acting like a victim because they’re “autistic” but I have met plenty of autistic people who aren’t self-aggrandizing, narcissistic assholes, so it’s not because of the autism, it’s because they’re assholes.
We’re essentially letting AI learn socialization from the people with the least quality socialization skills and interpersonal skills available. That’s the scary part, the idiotic shit it will learn from these narcissistic fucking idiots.
No, that’s only allowed if you’re super wealthy or part of Trump’s cabinet. Regular people don’t get to play at the big boy table, they’ll come down on you like a hammer. Just look at the soldier who bet on Maduro getting “removed”. He’s facing charges while guys like Lutnick are making bank.
Employees need to start figuring out that whining about it doesn’t change shit because you’re in a corporation, not a democracy. The only leverage they have is their numbers. They need to put up or shut up, the only way to stop this is for entire swaths of people to quit their jobs. Further, Google has plenty of people wealthy enough to start their own business, these people have options that a lot of others don’t. If they still care more about their paychecks than they do their ethics, I couldn’t give a fuck about their opinion that they won’t actually stand up to defend.
At least Timnit Gebru stood on principles (mostly anyway, she at least threatened to quit and they fired her), and the paper Google fired her over is more important today than when it was written in 2020. It was literally a prophetic document for all the issues we face regarding AI today.
Google pretended it fixed things by doing a lot of fake inclusivity bullshit (not that including people is bullshit, but rather Google’s methods are those weak and pointless corporate idea of “inclusivity” is bullshit), and brushed the contents of the paper under the rug. The reality is that paper was way too on the nose of real problems for them to allow to be published as it was.
Anyway, if the employees didn’t figure it out six years ago when they shitcanned Gebru for standing up for herself (and humanity), I doubt they’ll magically figure it out now.
the only way to stop this is for entire swaths of people to quit their jobs.
There’s a middle ground: unionization and strikes. Not always successful but more effective than just complaining.
A paid, non working, in-the-press employee body is more of a drain on business than an absent one, I bet.
That’s definitely a path as well, but considering how smart (at least in math and computer science) you have to be to be developing AI in general. Those are not easy people to replace because of their skill levels and skillsets. Them just leaving and refusing to do the work is honestly a lot better play than trying to get everyone in the company on board for unionization. Only OpenAI is strictly an AI company. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter all have their fingers in other pies, meaning you would need to get everyone in a massive company on board. Far easier to just get all your colleagues on board and just bail to build your own thing.
It’s called Work-to-Rule, google weenies. Nut up and start letting these projects fail.
Google employees stop being all talk.
You have the power.
What? a corporation does not give a shit what its employees think? say it ain’t so!
Google’s bound to do more layoffs, and any employee backlash to anything is mostly going to help management make up the list.
then make a stand that gets you severance for a company you shouldn’t morally want to work at. that sounds like a win win to me
