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by sunshine-o 3 hours ago
> Sundar Pichai in 2018 stated very clearly that “AI applications we will not pursue: …

> 3. Technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms.

Really?

Algorithms for ads and mass surveillance were always at the core of Google model.

And there is not really such thing as "internationally accepted norms", Google, as a pioneer, literally defined them at the time.

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>Algorithms for ads and mass surveillance were always at the core of Google model.

You may not have been around back then, but we had half a decade of Google before that model, and it was quite nice, nice enough to get us to leave our other search providers--and to hand them the keys to our inboxes.