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You should read the article. Google is not claiming that LLMs will harm employees. Google is claiming that sending confidential data to third parties is not al
by mgraczyk 3y ago
You should read the article. Google is not claiming that LLMs will harm employees.
Google is claiming that sending confidential data to third parties is not allowed and will leak that information.
A more apt quote would be
"Tobacco companies caution employees against giving cigarette recipe to competitors"
- lisasays 3y agoGoogle is not claiming that LLMs will harm employees. The infinitely bigger point is that this company is gladly pushing out a suite of products that it knows perfectly well to be carry a significant risk of harm. Of course the harm in this case is done to the -companies- where it is used, not the employees. But that's just a minor, and entirely tangential detail. You should read the article. I'm sorry that the pervasive toxicity of this industry has rubbed off on you to such an extent that feel you need lash out at others in this way.
- mgraczyk 3y agoThe linked article has nothing to do with the harms of LLMs on the users of LLMs. Saying something like "Google is harming users and saying that their employees shouldn't be subjected to this harm" is misleading and off topic.
- lisasays 3y agoAgreed. Only problem is -- the one saying these things (or by this point deliberately misreading what was said) is you, not me. I believe it was clear enough from the original snippet that the "smoking" is being done by the companies / organizations that choose to use the products -- not the employees.
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- kibwen 3y agoI think we can omit the tobacco analogy entirely and just state the reality: "company whose entire business model is based around secretly hoovering up accidentally-disclosed private data cautions employees against accidentally disclosing its private data".
- mgraczyk 3y agoYeah, I don't agree with that but it would be logical criticism of Google's position here.