Here's the NYT doing Google a big favor, by diverting attention from a very pressing issue with Google search, Religious Discrimination inherent in their services.

>Then there’s Google’s LaMDA, an A.I. model that made headlines a couple of months ago when Blake Lemoine, a senior Google engineer, was fired after claiming that it had become sentient.

It was his whistle-blowing in relation to religious issues[1], something Google can't really fix, but legally MUST fix, that put them into a huge bind.

    "The suspension came a day after he handed over documents to a US senator, which Lemoine claimed contained evidence that Google's technology had been involved in instances of religious discrimination, The New York Times previously reported."

  1 - https://news.yahoo.com/suspended-google-engineer-believes-companys-150324256.html