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robin.berjon.com • 4 days ago

This means that there was a meeting, likely several, at which they discussed the suicides and mental health harms this would create, and decided that those were within acceptable ranges.

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Google will soon start letting kids under 13 use its Gemini chatbot

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thespaceshipper.com•4 days ago

"The market will love it".

fillip.pro•4 days ago

Likely Google spun towards marketing and legal teams who both looked at it from a direct impact and decided they were reasonably safe.

I doubt there was a safety or ethical discussion at any reasonable level.

robin.berjon.com•4 days ago

I'm willing to bet those discussions happened. It's part of the employee mystique to follow vacuous "ethics" processes and documenting an assessment is good for legal risk mitigation which is Google's strongest department.

fillip.pro•4 days ago

From what I understood those teams have been reduced and in some cases removed over the past 5-years or so.

At least from the AI product side.

Although I’m not sure what would be worse: no safety experts or token roles providing no meaningful input.

valluanino.it•4 days ago

I guess some of the people in those meetings are the same people that a few years ago started flaunting on blogs and newspapers how they're raising their kids sheltering them from smartphones, social media and most technology in general. A severe case of "do as I say and not as I do".

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