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I think there’s a very difficult line to draw between the author souring in Google and Google itself souring. There’s one parallel in particular that I thought

I think there’s a very difficult line to draw between the author souring in Google and Google itself souring. There’s one parallel in particular that I thought was interesting - the org structure one from early on where MS orgs are all pointing guns at each other, then there’s a recent one where Amazon points the guns in whilst Google points the gun out to customers. I would say that’s fairly accurate. But it’s now not throwing stones at the competition. It’s reflection that Google is no better.

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native_samples 5y ago
It actually feels more like maybe Cornet just radicalized faster than the rest of the company. His reasons for quitting are that Google works with US ICE, that the AI 'ethics' researchers were fired and that Google makes a censored search engine for China. But those first two are both totally reasonable things for the company to have done. Gebru and her friend were both way out of line, and I don't recall anyone freaking out about having particular government agencies as customers when I worked there. Google Earth Pro for the longest time counted the CIA as a key customer, maybe it still does, so it's not like there wasn't grounds for objection.