[mikeortman]

Its verryyyy clear that Google rushed these models. They have a fiscal obligation to try and stay ahead of the curve and make as much money as possible on these investments. The CEO isn't honestly mad that the model is racist, he's mad that the model might lose the company contracts because its racist. Why would another company risk their image or lawsuits if they make a chatbot that says something illegal or denies rights to protected classes?

Racism is a bias (to say the least), and a bias is a pattern, and ML models are trained to find patterns. The model itself, is doing a really good job at that. The hard part and the part that takes a long time and money is training a model to learn from certain patterns and to not just ignore, but to actively find the patterns it shouldn't learn from. Google's greed chose not to invest enough time and money into that, and its biting them.

Bless the engineers/ICs and low-level PMs/managers doing their best, this isn't their fault in the slightest.