Having worked inside a few big tech companies, this outcome was practically inevitable. It would have been impossible for Googlers to raise the concerns that the public did without serious reputational or occupational hazard.
The visible & spoken culture at Google, Meta, and most big tech companies is very much in favor of "anti-racism" and "ML-fairness", though a large minority harbors criticisms in private conversation.
Any criticism of content or bias made during the bard/Gemini dogfooding phase would have been met swiftly with ostracization and possible termination.
The visible & spoken culture at Google, Meta, and most big tech companies is very much in favor of "anti-racism" and "ML-fairness", though a large minority harbors criticisms in private conversation.
Any criticism of content or bias made during the bard/Gemini dogfooding phase would have been met swiftly with ostracization and possible termination.