Comment by soraminazuki
14 hours ago
Google? They have a terrible track record on upholding moral principles. They helped Chinese censorship, wrote software for American killer drones, and offered their services to genocidal regimes. They fired dissenting employees. They are one of the worst companies to be rooting for.
This isn't about moral principles. In china, censorship is legal. In the US mass surveillance is not. Even for those "genocidal regimes", it was lawful use. even now, both anthropic and openai agree that their models can be used in war and censorship just like with china, since those things are lawful. Even with genocide, from what i understand, the safeguard is that humans have to be in the loop, not that it won't aid the efforts.
I don't expect companies to be moral, but I do expect them to be patriotic, and to obey the law. And I also expect the government to punish them sufficiently when they fail to do so. The morality part is for the people to legislate or some other way enact laws to reflect their beliefs. Companies don't get a vote at the ballot box and they certainly are not agents for moral arbitrage between a government and its people.