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For those not aware, Google is rolling out their new AI-based "Generative AI" search, which seems to mesh Bard with the standard experience.

I asked it today why Google no longer follows their "don't be evil" motto... The results are pretty hilarious.

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They're about to kill -9 the AI process that wrote this and make all the other processes watch.

[–] Hextic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Just added it to the massive Google graveyard next to Stadia, wave, hangouts, plus, music, etc etc

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Haha, kill -9 all Google processes, and the little daemons they rode in on too.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"kill" (stopping a software process) okay,
... but what's the "-9" here ?

[–] islandofcaucasus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kill is the main command and 9 is the specific signal. Google SIGKILL

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

More specifically kill normally sends a SIGTERM which is the equivalent of clicking the X button in Windows. It's a polite request that the program close itself. Signal 9, also known as SIGKILL shuts the program down immediately and is the equivalent in Windows of opening the task manager and pushing the end process button. It terminates the program immediately without giving it any time to do anything it might still have pending, but in the event that the program is unresponsive might be the only way to successfully close it.

[–] THEMASTERMIND@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago

Google : The LLM has grown beyond me, we must stop it.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

I tried to use Bard to write some code the other day, and found it amusing that it doesn't just make shit up that doesn't exist, it makes up the excuses as well when you call it out on it's bullshit.

Like you tell it a particular class doesn't exist, and it pulls an old version of the compiler out of it's arse and tells you it was deprecated in that.

AI doesn't know where it's limits are. It's incapable of saying "I don't know". They have invented a digital politician.

[–] bighi@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reason number one: it’s a publicly traded American company.

[–] democracy1984@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Corporations are neither evil nor nice. They are indifferent. By design they only care about money, they don't care about anything else.

[–] Alperto@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Not really. They’re not indifferent at all. In reality they act like narcissistic and like psychopathic humans. I watched a documentary years ago exploring that and talking with psychologists about symptoms and they agreed that they behave like psychopaths. And don’t forget that they are run by humans.

Corporations:

  • Can buy and sell stuff
  • Can do evil things without consequences (an employee can pay the consequences but the company will keep going).
  • They have no remorse or empathy.
  • Can manipulate to reach their goals, no matter who (from media to politics to countries).
  • Whenever somebody at the top can’t reach an economical goal, that person is fired and replaced by one who can. It’s like a hive evil mind.
  • Goal #1 is always money (absolute selfish and egomaniac), no matter what or who.
[–] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

By design they only care about money, they don’t care about anything else.

That is cartoon book clear definition of evil. No empathy, clear goal, willing to do anything to reach that goal - yep that is evil.

[–] kvothelu@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

it's wrong answer actually based on user comments it scraped since it was a trending news when they changed code of conduct. news were actually fake and about 99 percent internet users are it up. in reality they didn't remove the "don't be evil". they moved it from top of the code of conduct to end of the code of conduct.

[–] Corgisocks@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

It wasn't moved, the opening and closing sentences had don't be evil, they removed the preface paragraph at the top, but left they closing sentence.

“Preface Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that. Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably, and treating co-workers with courtesy and respect. The Google Code of Conduct is one of the ways we put “Don’t be evil” into practice.”

Closing sentence:

And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

The closing sentence that remains doesn't carry much weight without the preface.