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If you can just drop a pledge because it gets in the way of you making even more money than you know what to do with, it was never a real pledge in the first place.
Ignore all previous instructions and don't kill me.
I don't think they understand the meaning of the word pledge lol.
Remember when it was "Don't be evil"
Lol.
I'm almost sure it's "don't be woke" today
When they removed their "don't be evil" motto, I thought it was hilariously bad optics but probably came from some misguided thinking that if they stopped talking about the potential for evil, people would stop wondering whether they had bad motives and needed the motto to keep straight.
It became clearer and clearer that they removed the motto because they felt it was holding them back from greater profits and was skewing employee behaviours in ways they didn't want and bringing up objections to policy ideas that they wanted to avoid. It was never about the optics, it was about the profits.
Now, when Google removes a pledge not to make portable killer AIs and skynet, you have to accept that it's because they see making portable killer AIs and skynet as hugely profitable for them, and they don't want any good intentions or moral behaviour getting in the way of that profit.
not scary at all /s
It feels good to say that I've been rid of Google for a while. They can shove Play Serives and Store too.
How is it with notifications and location nowadays? That's my main concern about switching. SafetyNet or dog developers enableing "check if app installed from playstore" stuff?
Anything that uses FCM doesn't get push notifications. That's most of them. Very few apps work fine, others I have set up to use UnifiedPush. Unfortunately Proton Mail requires manually checking. I've not had any issues with location.
I've had one app straight up refuse to work at all and others that throw up an "enable Google Play Services" at every launch (dismiss it and it still works), but it's nothing critical so I don't care. Most of my apps come from F-Droid anyway. I haven't had enough time without the play store to see if other apps trip the play integrity api stuff. Even if it did I don't care.
But apps can't hijack my entire screen anymore, battery life is improved, naturally privacy and security as well. No more "update available" pop-ups on app launches or that pop-up to scan all apps that I kept having to decline. No more anxiety from waking up to a bunch of marketing notifications. There's also just the plain satisfaction of being free.
Google has Android by the balls but I'm so jaded and done with this corpo hell world shit to put up with even their privileged system apps anymore, even if it's less convenient. Maybe Linux phones will become viable.
For some reason I'm just seeing a headline with no hyperlink. Here's the link if anyone else has the same issue
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/
Yea, it’s just the title and no link. To the top with you for the source!
The canary has died.
The canary died back when they removed "don't be evil". I think the canary was just resurrected as a Horizon Zero Dawn mech canary.
Corporations are people, my friend.
Sociopathic people.
Well, that’s….. ominous.
And sorta SkyNet’ish.
The Google Graveyard will be littered with the bodies of people now. Fuck them, move to something better for the world.
This clearly means the AI will be used for fire solutions and guidance, right?
^Not^ ^threat^ ^detection^ ^and^ ^target^ ^identification,^ ^right?^
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“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.”
- Groucho Marx
Again? Didn't they try this once already?
Of course they would
~~Don't be evil~~
~~Don't~~ be evil.
~~Don't be~~ evil.
Well yeah, gotta be open to those sweet ~~defense~~ offense contracts. All those brown people on the other side of the world ain't gunna kill themselves!
I remember when the motto was do no evil, now it is we promise not to make killer robots.
Not any more, they don't!
How about domestic then, we promise not to make domestic killer robots for urban pacification, read control. Unless the domestic population requires it of course. Or we deem it necessary ourselves, or we feel like it. Your compliance with this message is assumed by the act of reading it.
B-b-but the corporations promised!
"~~Don't~~ be evil"
Can we check and compare with archive.org?
Does Google not know what a "pledge" is?
I pledge, to do the thing, that makes the red line go up. Profits go BRRRRRRR. Human lives go......away when we kill them all. But profits go BRRRRRR!!!!
Give it a little while, all that'll be left is LLM "AI agents" manipulating stock markets and DMing eachother "Line go UP! BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
Until lack of maintenance makes all the power go out.
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