Google continues to show us why it chose to abandon its old motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” as it becomes more and more enmeshed with the military-industrial complex. Most recently, Google has removed four key points from its AI principles. Specifically, it previously read that the company would not...
    • conicalscientist@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      It started with gmail IMO. That was an early milestone of the evil empire. They announced mining your emails to build an ad empire. I remember being bewildered that nerds on forums were going nuts over 1GB of storage. What a shit trade off I thought. But what did I know then especially relative to the expertise of internet nerds.

      Gmail was launched around 2005 which means the concept was in development several years before. That puts the timeline around 2000 probably. Google was evil from very early on.

      • optissima (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        You’re not looking at the choices they made before and during the don’t be evil era. With all tech, if they didn’t create it, someone else would’ve because it’s not that super smart people “created” a thing but that the community created and made available the tools required to “invent” said technology.