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   Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 12:05:58 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

   • Davey Alba

   "The trusted internet-search giant is providing low-quality information in a race to keep up with the competition," --- this phrasing makes it starkly clear that it's a race to nowhere good.

   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-19/google-bard-ai-chatbot-raises-ethical-concerns-from-employees

   From @daveyalba

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 12:05:54 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     “On the same day, [Google] announced that it would be weaving generative AI into its health-care offerings.”

     ➡️ 🚨🚨🚨

     “Employees say they’re concerned that the speed of development is not allowing enough time to study potential harms.”

     ➡️Employees are correct.

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 12:05:55 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     “Silicon Valley as a whole is still wrestling with how to reconcile competitive pressures with safety.”

     ➡️Are they though? It seems to me that those in charge (i.e. VCs and C-suite execs) are really only interested in competition (for $$).

     “But ChatGPT’s remarkable debut meant that by early this year, there was no turning back.”

     ➡️False. We turned back from lead in gasoline. We turned back from ozone-destroying CFCs. We can turn back from text synthesis machines.

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     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Google’s leaders decided that as long as it called new products “experiments,” the public might forgive their shortcomings, the employees said.

     ➡️We don’t tolerate “experiments” that pollute the natural ecosystem and we shouldn’t tolerate those that pollute the information ecosystem either.

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 12:05:57 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     “The group working on ethics that Google pledged to fortify is now disempowered and demoralized, the current and former workers said.”

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