<story><title>Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/02/27/2024/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-calls-ai-tools-responses-completely-unacceptable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>If the results are as silly as the article suggests, I wonder if it could be deliberate sabotage. They know they can’t raise the issue normally, so go the other way, turn the dial to 11. Now it’s just ridiculous and is all over the media. The CEO himself is asking the dials to be turned back to 3.</text></item><item><author>tonymet</author><text>Having worked inside a few big tech companies, this outcome was practically inevitable. It would have been impossible for Googlers to raise the concerns that the public did without serious reputational or occupational hazard.&lt;p&gt;The visible &amp;amp; spoken culture at Google, Meta, and most big tech companies is very much in favor of &amp;quot;anti-racism&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;ML-fairness&amp;quot;, though a large minority harbors criticisms in private conversation.&lt;p&gt;Any criticism of content or bias made during the bard&amp;#x2F;Gemini dogfooding phase would have been met swiftly with ostracization and possible termination.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>username332211</author><text>When you are required to listen and obey and not to think or question the difference between loyal obedience and sabotage becomes entirely theoretical.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/02/27/2024/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-calls-ai-tools-responses-completely-unacceptable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>If the results are as silly as the article suggests, I wonder if it could be deliberate sabotage. They know they can’t raise the issue normally, so go the other way, turn the dial to 11. Now it’s just ridiculous and is all over the media. The CEO himself is asking the dials to be turned back to 3.</text></item><item><author>tonymet</author><text>Having worked inside a few big tech companies, this outcome was practically inevitable. It would have been impossible for Googlers to raise the concerns that the public did without serious reputational or occupational hazard.&lt;p&gt;The visible &amp;amp; spoken culture at Google, Meta, and most big tech companies is very much in favor of &amp;quot;anti-racism&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;ML-fairness&amp;quot;, though a large minority harbors criticisms in private conversation.&lt;p&gt;Any criticism of content or bias made during the bard&amp;#x2F;Gemini dogfooding phase would have been met swiftly with ostracization and possible termination.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonymet</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s about the only corrective measure that would have worked.</text></comment>