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Re:Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-... by ASinclair on Sunday February 16, 2025 @06:21PM (#43072837)
> The concept was well intentioned but, quite ironically, these programs turned into a hub of biased discriminatory behavior and it was becoming increasingly hard to paint them as anything else.

I think the programs basically did nothing. They were ineffective. Yet, that made a lot of people really angry.

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Re:Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-... by zombiwoof on Sunday February 16, 2025 @06:23PM (#43072854)
I’d argue they had reverse intentions in that it over fit on discriminatory hiring (against white men)
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Re:Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-... by ASinclair on Sunday February 16, 2025 @07:25PM (#43073366)
More like against Chinese and Indian men. That’s where the hiring will go now that these programs are gone.
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Re:Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-... by AlecSchueler on Monday February 17, 2025 @08:52AM (#43078999)
What woord you base that argument on?
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