Companies called out for bad behavior often misdirect the
conversation by saying – "Yes, but we do good things
too!"
The worst defense of bad behavior ventured by any company, in my
opinion, is "Yes we are loathsome, but we create jobs."
Jobs are good, don't get me wrong.
But every enterprise creates jobs. Companies working with toxic
chemicals create jobs that kill employees. Companies that ruin the
environment create jobs that steal clean air and water from our
families. Pimps create jobs and exploit the most vulnerable. Drug
kingpins create jobs and murder children.
If you can't create jobs without enormous social cost, then
don't pretend you are good for my community.
Enter Clearview AI, the recently outed facial recognition database
purveyor that downloads billions of pictures from the web and
other places, selling search access to that data to whoever wants
it. Stalking an old girlfriend? Use Clearview to find her. Creating
a suspect pool for a local
