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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.”

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Protip to Google employees: if you're going to protest, do an actual protest instead of whatever this performative crap was.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Autistic person here, this 👆 I've actually found it drives me in a positive direction due to sense of justice and hyper empathy, both from autism. If anything, they are fighting against that to be evil pieces of shit.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

If I ever went postal, lutnick would be near the top of my list. I won't, but it's nice to fantasize.