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Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch (thelemmy.club)
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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Um, yes?

Following Google's corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took "Do the right thing" as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct. The original motto was retained in Google's code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. Between April 21st and May 4th of 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct's preface and retained in its last sentence.

Between 21 April and 4 May 2018, Google removed the motto from the preface, leaving a mention in the final line: "And remember... don't be evil, and if you see something that you think isn't right – speak up!"

They kept it within their internal code of conduct, but it's been quite a while since that was their public motto.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

To be fair, breadsmasher didn't ask if it's the public motto, they asked if they removed it. And they didn't remove it, as it's still in the public code of conduct.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So... they didn't remove it, they moved it.

But that's really neither here nor there, as it's just words. I've never known a company to care much about words over profit.