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by j_k_eter 1348 days ago
Google has no practical way to address ethics at Google-scale. Their ability to operate at all depends as ever upon outsourcing ethics to machine learning algorithms.
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IIUC you're saying Google's algorithmic implementations of policy enforcement do not robustly or adequately address ethical concerns. Isn't the same true for, iono, the whole web? Human-based ethics don't scale either and can be worse (I mean, isn't that the issue with hiring pipelines? Juries?)

I think it's gotten a ton better vs 10 years ago, and is getting better still.

More on topic -- when folks here complain that Google can't release these models, it's not like they're just sitting there using that as an excuse -- Google has entire teams dedicated to ML safety trying to figure out how to filter out bad stuff, make models fairer, and avoid situations like M$FT's "Tay" (or worse).