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One podcast (Coder Radio) suggested that it might be due to corporate culture and people being afraid of reporting issues upward.

While I do think it's culture, I think it stems from Googles advertising based business model. I believe they have attempted to make their LLM safe for advertisers and prefer to err on the side of being safe, even if the risk of being non-brand-safe is minimum.

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The Economist did a piece on how Google's culture affected Gemini.

HN link here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39550359

Yannic gave his anecdotal experience about Google's culture: https://youtu.be/Fr6Teh_ox-8

It was eye-opening for me. I had no idea things were so bad.

Internal culture hijack successful. Great video - thanks!

Probably not exactly afraid of reporting things, but no incentive to do so. Corporate culture has a lot of this “not my problem” mentality.

You are not gonna report dumb DEI initiatives if the DEI crowd will get you fired for it. And this is how you end up with LLMs that refuse to teach C++ due to "safety" or trying to convince us that Abraham Lincoln was Black and Nazis had Hispanics.

Fundamentally these megacorporations need to drop these useless non-engineering functions (not that all non-engineering is useless, but these functions are) if they really want to get to AGI.

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