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by chenning
2431 days ago
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I don't think this is just a Google issue. Osterloh just happened to be the first one to come right out and say, yeah, maybe you should tell your guests. Personally, I thought the bigger news (insult) was when he said, "Gosh, I haven't thought about this before in quite this way." Give me a break. You knew it. I knew it. We all knew it. Maybe the right thing to do is have the device recognize there's an unknown voice in the room and announce that it's listening. That hasn't happened for some reason, but I highly doubt the reason is that no one ever thought of it. |
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Imagine if I made a self-driving car. Imagine if, in the rain, it simply slowed down and stopped right where it was, even in the middle of the freeway.
Now imagine that when asked about whether this was dangerous and ought to be disclosed to customers, the VP of Engineering said, "Gosh, I haven't thought about this before in quite this way."
We'd all say the VP was either lying, or was dangerously incompetent and was running a dysfunctional engineering group.
I don't need to get into a long conversation about whether this is malice or incompetence: It's unacceptable either way with self-driving cars to claim to have not thought about safety, and in the case of privacy and disclosure of recordings in my home, it's unacceptable either way to claim to have not thought about it.
This company is rotten from head to toe, and so is the system of incentives that lead companies like Google and Facebook to flout all standards of responsibility.
How can someone say something like this and still have their job at 5pm PST? How can Zuck say time and time again, "Sorry, we'll do better next time, by the way, political ads can lie," and there are no serious consequences?