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>It also sounds like this wasn't intended behavior

You mean it's not something a trillion dollar corporation with thousands of engineers and testers will ever notice before unveiling a revolutionary spearhead/flagship product to the world in public? Give me a break.

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How about Apple maps, windows 8, the Samsung Galaxy with the exploding batteries, the entire metaverse.

Those products did not openly discriminate certain people.

https://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED277/65d7d17ae4f...

Except for maybe the exploding batteries, those examples and Gemini's absurd racial bias weren't unnoticed before release. In all of these cases, people noticed but stayed silent because they believed the corporate environment would not tolerate anything less than yesman cheerleading. Do you really think the people working on metaverse couldn't smell the stink? They smelt it, but who was going to stick their neck out and tell Zuck to abort it?

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