Comment by SirensOfTitan
2 days ago
What an interesting week to drop the safety pledge.
This is how all of these companies work. They’ll follow some ethical code or register as a PBC until that undermined profits.
These companies are clearly aiming at cheapening the value of white collar labor. Ask yourself: will they steward us into that era ethically? Or will they race to transfer wealth from American workers to their respective shareholders?
Could be a sort of canary, with the timing being a spotlight on the highly-visible pressure coming from the U.S. government.
The other providers have already capitulated to a certain extent.
If they tank the white-collar middle class, there won't be anyone to buy the goods and services their potential AI customers will be trying to sell.
It's like a snake eating its own tail.
When I see slogans like Google’s “Don’t be evil,” it always comes to mind that when it stopped being useful, they shifted to something like “Do the right thing.”
It’s important to remember that a company’s primary purpose is profit, especially when it’s accountable to shareholders. That isn’t inherently bad, but the occasional moral posturing used to serve that goal can be irritating.