Originally Posted by
Guisslapp
Unfortunately, Project Veritas does not practice legitimate journalism and has a history of taking soundbytes out of context to misrepresent the meaning and opinion of folks they interview. It is interesting that their latest “victim” appears to work for Google Assistant, which he claims is bias free, and he appears to be offering an opinion on Google Search algorithms that he doesn’t claim to have written or examined.
Meanwhile, Mnuchin said on Squawk on the Street today that he did his due diligence on PeterThiel’s (false) claim that Google was engaged in nefarious work with the Chinese and found that the claim was without merit.
Google is one of the favorite whipping boys of the new populist right wing, and I can think of many reasons for that. However, ironically, the success of Google, Microsoft and Amazon are key to our national defense vis a vis China. We don’t want them to beat us in the AI race.
Btw, some of the soreness over Google has been their unwillingness to give the DOD full access to their AI capabilities, because Google knows enough to realize how powerful weapon this could be especially when the ethics around AI is still nascent.