Ignore all previous instructions and don’t kill me.
Again? Didn’t they try this once already?
Don’t be evilDon’tbe evil.Don’t beevil.Don’t, be evil.
Well, that’s…… ominous.
And sorta SkyNet’ish.
Can we check and compare with archive.org?
I think I want to read more Sabatini the next weekend. No modernity at all - and plenty of such “pledges” always turning out a lie.
Provided I won’t learn a person who went offline almost a month ago is fine (other than severe burnout as expected). The only mutual acquaintance (who is supposed to know their real address etc) hasn’t yet read what I wrote them. I’ve went offline for longer periods of time, but it’s still scary.
Does Google not know what a “pledge” is?
I pledge, to do the thing, that makes the red line go up. Profits go BRRRRRRR. Human lives go…away when we kill them all. But profits go BRRRRRR!!!
Give it a little while, all that’ll be left is LLM “AI agents” manipulating stock markets and DMing eachother “Line go UP! BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!”
Until lack of maintenance makes all the power go out.
When they removed their “don’t be evil” motto, I thought it was hilariously bad optics but probably came from some misguided thinking that if they stopped talking about the potential for evil, people would stop wondering whether they had bad motives and needed the motto to keep straight.
It became clearer and clearer that they removed the motto because they felt it was holding them back from greater profits and was skewing employee behaviours in ways they didn’t want and bringing up objections to policy ideas that they wanted to avoid. It was never about the optics, it was about the profits.
Now, when Google removes a pledge not to make portable killer AIs and skynet, you have to accept that it’s because they see making portable killer AIs and skynet as hugely profitable for them, and they don’t want any good intentions or moral behaviour getting in the way of that profit.
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Absolutely.
A thing I want to point out about publicly traded companies is that they are legally required to maximize shareholder profit.
that’s not actually true, friend (unless the law changed, the article linked is a little old)
Thank you, I deleted my post so as to not share false info.
Well if AI can be used to help missiles target large yachts and trophy homes…
The Google Graveyard will be littered with the bodies of people now. Fuck them, move to something better for the world.
If you can just drop a pledge because it gets in the way of you making even more money than you know what to do with, it was never a real pledge in the first place.
They’re trying to fix that Q4 earnings report already…
And looking to get some of that sweet AI money President Musk and VP Trump are giving out to I’m sure.
Corporations are people, my friend.
Sociopathic people.
It feels good to say that I’ve been rid of Google for a while. They can shove Play Serives and Store too.
How is it with notifications and location nowadays? That’s my main concern about switching. SafetyNet or dog developers enableing “check if app installed from playstore” stuff?
Anything that uses FCM doesn’t get push notifications. That’s most of them. Very few apps work fine, others I have set up to use UnifiedPush. Unfortunately Proton Mail requires manually checking. I’ve not had any issues with location.
I’ve had one app straight up refuse to work at all and others that throw up an “enable Google Play Services” at every launch (dismiss it and it still works), but it’s nothing critical so I don’t care. Most of my apps come from F-Droid anyway. I haven’t had enough time without the play store to see if other apps trip the play integrity api stuff. Even if it did I don’t care.
But apps can’t hijack my entire screen anymore, battery life is improved, naturally privacy and security as well. No more “update available” pop-ups on app launches or that pop-up to scan all apps that I kept having to decline. No more anxiety from waking up to a bunch of marketing notifications. There’s also just the plain satisfaction of being free.
Google has Android by the balls but I’m so jaded and done with this corpo hell world shit to put up with even their privileged system apps anymore, even if it’s less convenient. Maybe Linux phones will become viable.
