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Google's Culture of Fear

inside the DEI hivemind that led to gemini's disaster
Mike Solana

Mar 4, 2024

  • Following interviews with concerned employees throughout the company, a portrait of a leaderless Google in total disarray, making it “impossible to ship good products at Google”

  • Revealing the complicated diversity architecture underpinning Gemini’s tool for generating art, which led to its disastrous results

  • Google knew their Gemini model’s DEI worldview compromised its performance ahead of launch

  • Pervasive and clownish DEI culture, from micro-management of benign language (“ninja”) and bizarre pronoun expectations to forcing the Greyglers, an affinity group for Googlers over 40, to change their name on account of not all people over 40 have grey hair

  • No apparent sense of the existential challenge facing the company for the first time in its history, let alone a path to victory


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