Tech Companies See The Light And Cut DEI

[Rightguide]

TECH

Tech companies like Google and Meta made cuts to DEI programs in 2023 after big promises in prior years​

PUBLISHED FRI, DEC 22 20239:00 AM ESTUPDATED FRI, DEC 22 20234:46 PM EST
Jennifer Elias@JENN_ELIAS

KEY POINTS

• After vocal commitments following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, DEI programs in the tech industry are in broad retreat.
• Some companies have laid off DEI staffers and leaders of diverse employee resource groups, downsized learning and development programs, and cut budgets for external DEI groups by as much as 90% in 2023, sources told CNBC.
• The cuts come as the tech industry doubles down on artificial intelligence. With fewer diverse voices represented in AI development, the resulting products could be less accurate or more harmful to users.

More detail here:https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/22/google-meta-other-tech-giants-cut-dei-programs-in-2023.html

Apparently, virtue signaling isn't helping the bottom line.

 

[HisArpy]

Go woke, go broke. It's a thing, even for tech giants.

 

[Rightguide]

Go woke, go broke. It's a thing, even for tech giants.

Yep, a ghastly waste of time, money, and shareholders equity.

 

[Lazaran]

From RussiaGuide’s own post / article:

• The cuts come as the tech industry doubles down on artificial intelligence. With fewer diverse voices represented in AI development, the resulting products could be less accurate or more harmful to users.

That ^ is welcome news to racist, fascist, bigots like RussiaGuide and Derpy.



RussiaGuide and Derpy

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

From RussiaGuide’s own post / article:

• The cuts come as the tech industry doubles down on artificial intelligence. With fewer diverse voices represented in AI development, the resulting products could be less accurate or more harmful to users.

That ^ is welcome news to racist, fascist, bigots like RussiaGuide and Derpy.



RussiaGuide and Derpy

The AI fad will crash and burn just like the crypto fad did. The tech is being sold as a way to replace skilled workers, but the bots underperform whenever someone tries to use them for a practical purpose.

 

[Rightguide]

The AI fad will crash and burn just like the crypto fad did. The tech is being sold as a way to replace skilled workers, but the bots underperform whenever someone tries to use them for a practical purpose.

What does that have to do with DEI program cutbacks? AI is probably here to stay:

Why AI is here to stay​

A revolution in communication between people and computers​

Cassie Kozyrkov Jun 21, 2019

https://kozyrkov.medium.com/why-ai-is-here-to-stay-9c75b1868b9b

 

[Lazaran]

The AI fad will crash and burn just like the crypto fad did. The tech is being sold as a way to replace skilled workers, but the bots underperform whenever someone tries to use them for a practical purpose.

Agreed; but that won’t stop some sociopathic fucks from forcing the tech into the marketplace and causing great harm.

It’s one thing to over promise and under deliver, but knowingly forcing dangerous/ harmful products into the marketplace should come with severe consequences for those doing it.

*nods*

 

[Lazaran]

The cuts come as the tech industry doubles down on artificial intelligence. With fewer diverse voices represented in AI development, the resulting products could be less accurate or more harmful to users.

Hope that ^ helps, RacistGuide.



RacistGuide

 

[Bray123]

The AI fad will crash and burn just like the crypto fad did. The tech is being sold as a way to replace skilled workers, but the bots underperform whenever someone tries to use them for a practical purpose.

There are forthcoming AI developments that will transform law enforcement; like most projects it's nothing to do with replacing humans but using the power of computers to analyse mass data in real time and make projections. It'll be impressive if they can make it work, the average deplorable will have an awakening.

 

[Rightguide]

Hope that ^ helps, RacistGuide.



RacistGuide

You should learn how to post and stop misquoting me like the chicken shit you are.

 

[Lazaran]

RacistGuide apparently doesn’t like owning the shit they post.



RacistGuide

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

There are forthcoming AI developments that will transform law enforcement; like most projects it's nothing to do with replacing humans but using the power of computers to analyse mass data in real time and make projections. It'll be impressive if they can make it work, the average deplorable will have an awakening.

I suspect such tech will merely allow the police to deflect criticism for repressive actions onto “the algorithm”. It won’t lead to greater public safety, just less accountability.

 

[Bray123]

I suspect such tech will merely allow the police to deflect criticism for repressive actions onto “the algorithm”. It won’t lead to greater public safety, just less accountability.

AI has nothing to do with photoshopping a face onto a nude, like some here seem to think. It's about a computer learning from data analysis (maybe in real time) to form a prediction e.g. as to future trends. It does nothing more than a dumb human could work out, except go through by a billion permutations of possibilities to come up with a likely deduction which still has to be assessed.

In simple terms? It could view videos of crowds, identify that several people are wearing 'blacks for Trump' shirts but they're all white people. Therefore there might be a Trump rally going on, rather than a local Proud Boys meeting or a day out at the mental hospital.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Go woke, go broke. It's a thing, even for tech giants.

C'mon HisArpy, say the quiet part out loud: White Good, Black Bad. Hetero Good, Homo Bad.
You know you want to.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Google and Meta are not representative of the tech industry at large. Most big tech companies require employees to complete an online self-paced course once a year that takes about 30 minutes to complete so they can check the box. Employees complete them during Zoom calls or while watching TV at home.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Google and Meta are not representative of the tech industry at large. Most big tech companies require employees to complete an online self-paced course once a year that takes about 30 minutes to complete so they can check the box. Employees complete them during Zoom calls or while watching TV at home.

You have zero real knowledge of this scenario.

 

[Lazaran]

Like Covid vaccines, right?

^
(Quoted for posterity and stupidity)

NO, kucked_a_lot, NOT "Like Covid vaccines".



Vaccination in one form or another has been going on for CENTURIES.



The Covid vaccine was just another in the long line of progression, and developed / approved at an accelerated pace in the face of a GLOBAL PANDEMIC from a NOVEL VIRUS that was KILLING MILLIONS and causing long term organ damage to MILLIONS more.



The testing process was also quite rigorous, with multiple large group studies done in parallel - which is why the vaccine didn’t appear for a year,.



The Covid vaccine was also a WORLD WIDE EFFORT.



Now consider and contrast all the above with the fact that the Mumps vaccine for CHILDREN was developed in just three years waaaaaay back in 1963-1966 (understanding / acknowledging that vaccines had been under development for almost TWO CENTURIES by that time.)



So NO, kucked_a_lot, the Covid vaccine is NOTHING like the pie in the sky "Hyperloop and the "Starship - 100 person mission to Mars", that are currently unneeded and scientifically impracticable.



Hope that ^ helps.



kucked_a_lot

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Some progress has been made in 2023.

The DEI Rollback of 2023​

States start to limit programs that sow racial and political division.​

The diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy on campus has proliferated in recent years, but there are signs it’s finally meeting resistance. The latest good news is from Wisconsin, where public universities will pare back some DEI programs and freeze them going forward.

Under a deal shaped by Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the state approved $800 million in pay raises for university staff and for plans to build a new engineering building at the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison. In exchange, the university will freeze all DEI hiring, eliminate a third of DEI positions on campus, and create an endowed chair to teach “conservative political thought, classical economic theory or classical liberalism” at UW Madison. At least now there will be one conservative.

That’s a step forward at a school that has as many DEI staffers as history professors, according to Jay Greene at the Heritage Foundation. The DEI infrastructure is entrenched, but after an initial negative vote and negotiations, the UW Board of Regents approved the deal 11-6.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called the deal “obnoxious” and “B.S.,” according to WISN-TV. But lawmakers have an obligation to taxpayers not to fund policies that practice racial favoritism or promote hostility to equal opportunity.

Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt recently signed an executive order to stop funding many of the DEI programs in that state’s government. The order instructs universities to “review” DEI positions and programs and “restructure” or “eliminate” those not necessary for compliance or accreditation. The order specifies that executive state agencies cannot use state “funds, property or resources” for programs that “grant preferential treatment based on one person’s particular race.”

The order also prohibits the use of state money for DEI mandates or loyalty oaths that discriminate on the basis of racial identity or ideological viewpoint. Those litmus tests have been used to toxic effect in hiring at universities as well as state agencies. But the order protects “the academic freedom of any particular faculty member to direct the instruction within his or her own course.” So no censorship complaints, please.

The ideology of DEI was sold in the name of opportunity for all, but in practice it has become a cudgel for political conformity and racial grievance. It feeds the progressive narrative on campus that America is a land of oppressor and oppressed, as the explosion of antisemitism on campus has illustrated. Let’s hope more state legislatures follow the lead of Wisconsin and Oklahoma.

 

[icanhelp1]

Some progress has been made in 2023.

The DEI Rollback of 2023​

States start to limit programs that sow racial and political division.​

The diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy on campus has proliferated in recent years, but there are signs it’s finally meeting resistance. The latest good news is from Wisconsin, where public universities will pare back some DEI programs and freeze them going forward.

Under a deal shaped by Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the state approved $800 million in pay raises for university staff and for plans to build a new engineering building at the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison. In exchange, the university will freeze all DEI hiring, eliminate a third of DEI positions on campus, and create an endowed chair to teach “conservative political thought, classical economic theory or classical liberalism” at UW Madison. At least now there will be one conservative.

That’s a step forward at a school that has as many DEI staffers as history professors, according to Jay Greene at the Heritage Foundation. The DEI infrastructure is entrenched, but after an initial negative vote and negotiations, the UW Board of Regents approved the deal 11-6.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called the deal “obnoxious” and “B.S.,” according to WISN-TV. But lawmakers have an obligation to taxpayers not to fund policies that practice racial favoritism or promote hostility to equal opportunity.

Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt recently signed an executive order to stop funding many of the DEI programs in that state’s government. The order instructs universities to “review” DEI positions and programs and “restructure” or “eliminate” those not necessary for compliance or accreditation. The order specifies that executive state agencies cannot use state “funds, property or resources” for programs that “grant preferential treatment based on one person’s particular race.”

The order also prohibits the use of state money for DEI mandates or loyalty oaths that discriminate on the basis of racial identity or ideological viewpoint. Those litmus tests have been used to toxic effect in hiring at universities as well as state agencies. But the order protects “the academic freedom of any particular faculty member to direct the instruction within his or her own course.” So no censorship complaints, please.

The ideology of DEI was sold in the name of opportunity for all, but in practice it has become a cudgel for political conformity and racial grievance. It feeds the progressive narrative on campus that America is a land of oppressor and oppressed, as the explosion of antisemitism on campus has illustrated. Let’s hope more state legislatures follow the lead of Wisconsin and Oklahoma.

Just to change the subject a little. Is there any truth to the rumors that California is creating a subdivision of the California Highway Patrol, one that going to enforce retailers abide by the proposed new law that all toy stores **WILL** have a gender neutral isle for shoppers?

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Just to change the subject a little. Is there any truth to the rumors that California is creating a subdivision of the California Highway Patrol, one that going to enforce retailers abide by the proposed new law that all toy stores **WILL** have a gender neutral isle for shoppers?

Lol. No idea but it wouldn’t surprise me.

 

[RobDownSouth]

You have zero real knowledge of this scenario.

Hasn't stopped anyone on the whackadoodle right from posting yet!

 

[icanhelp1]

Lol. No idea but it wouldn’t surprise me.

These bureaucrats have gone insane, my comment on CHIPS was sarcasm.

 

[zipman]

Go woke, go broke. It's a thing, even for tech giants.

Except that DEI leads to increased profitability.

But other than that, you're TOTALLY right.

 

[HisArpy]

Except that DEI leads to increased profitability.

But other than that, you're TOTALLY right.

You mean like Disney? Or the Tech companies in the article?

In the end, the failure on your part to acknowledge reality is what makes you a fuckup every day of your miserable life.

 

[DeluxAuto]

You mean like Disney? Or the Tech companies in the article?

In the end, the failure on your part to acknowledge reality is what makes you a fuckup every day of your miserable life.

You're like an angry little kitten when you get upset. So cute!