Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
www.theverge.com
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
    • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
      22·
      2 months ago

      Manufacturing consent is the name of the game. The bottom line is money, nobody gives a FUCK.

      System of a Down - Boom!

      • Miles O'BrienEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        4,000 hungry children leave us per hour from starvation, while BILLIONS are spent on BOMBS

        CREATING DEATH SHOWERS

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      71·
      2 months ago

      You can’t blame a computer for what it does. Only the user who asks for the content is to blame. /s

    • Sausager@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      According to this article it doesn’t actually put out porn or child porn. It’s gross but not porn. Relevant text:

      “Nonconsensual AI-generated images of women in bikinis spreading their legs, and of children with so-called “donut glaze” on their faces”

    • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I think it’s disgusting that X probably doesn’t see a problem with it, but it still wouldn’t be legally classified as CSAM, no?

      • ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        In some places it is CSAM and in others it is being working into convert into law.

        I think the issues are:

        • It can pass as real
        • Unlike run-of-the-mill cartoon porn, real photos of children (even not CSAM) are involved, either in the training or as input for the generation
  • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Could Elon buy them? Does he have that much wealth power?

    EDIT: to be clear, it’s not that I want him to.‘it’s just frightening that it even sounds plausible enough to question in ignorance

      • calliope@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        To put it into perspective, if he managed to sell all of his ownerships of companies for the most optimistic idea of his current net worth*, he could still buy less than 19% of Apple.

        He’d need several friends to chip in to even get to 50%. A trillion is a lot until inflation gets out of hand.

        * $717 billion; probably $100 billion too high at least.