Not surprisingly companies are willing to get into bed with more and more questionable use cases if it helps show some desperately needed AI adoption revenue.
Companies are getting desperate to show AI adoption as right now the numbers just don’t add up.
Just because you’re struggling to get raw materials for your business doesn’t make it a good business. Without strong enterprise adoption ASAP (which is what’s seriously suffering) things are going to hit the fan real quick.
But not all companies as we have seen over the last week or so.
Irregardless, all companies doing so will have to balance the ethics of their choices against the public perception of their company as all of us are free to make choices that align with our own personal ethics.
(In short, they don't get to hide behind "everyone else is doing it".)
Google doesn't need to do anything to make any other numbers work.
Gemini 3.1 pro is really good; Meta just signed a deal with Google for their TPUs.
Nano Banana 2 Pro is alsy very good.
OpenAI numbers might not add up, Antrophic might burn through cash, but not google.
And it doesn't matter anyway because as long as google can afford it, Microsoft HAS TO do this too and Microsoft also can afford it. The same with Amazon.
Microsoft invests in OpenAI and Amazon invests in Antrophic.
Given Anthropic is also funded by them, either they are desperate to not lose or they really don't think Anthropic has a moat.
I think I'd be more annoyed if my government weren't using tools to make BS work more efficient.
So the problem is filling out forms is too onerous, but rather than fix the process, create a device that fills the form with slop and then another device that approves or rejects the slop form.
I could have sworn I signed up for the other future-the one without quite this much stupid.
Gemini: "You're absolutely right! That's my bad. Here's the actual missile launch target."
Also the whole internet started as a military project. The big reason, especially when it comes to Silicon Valley's tech is that people just don't want it until they can see what it does.
...is as true now as ever.
When is the point we see that boycotting these companies that are helping kill, lets say 100 little girls with a tomahawk missiles, is the very least we can do?
It wouldn't be good though.
Do you support the current Iran war and the way its handled?
Opposition and critisism (normally done by the independent press and the party not in power) is there to align. With trump you have 'deals' of rich people doing other rich people favours. They do not care about human lives
Will I be the only one concerned that amplifying bullshit might run contrary to the mission of the national defense
To them, this is just another Tuesday.
It's possible to use just one word for it but I don't want to get banned
Let's see if anyone here has the guts to even switch away from GCP, scratch that can folks even move away from Apple(Apple pays for Gemini too) and Android?
I do think OpenAI deserves the boycott but people talking about Anthropic as they were taking some kind of ethical stand when it was just ego tripping for everyone involved is insane.