Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by mraison on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @03:44PM (#17182347)

Also many folks from Facebook AI Research (including Yann LeCun)

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by Fins on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:16PM (#17182592)

Not to say that they are wrong in boycotting, but I find it hard to take seriously a moral stance from somebody working for Facebook.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by nunya213 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:22PM (#17182633)

Kind of a hard stance to enforce. If you work for basically any major corporate entity you are probably sacrificing integrity to do so. So it seems you are calling the kettle black here.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by pathseeker on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:40PM (#17182758)

Equating all major corporate entities is a cop-out.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by nunya213 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @11:08AM (#17188259)

I clearly left room for some corps to escape my characterization so there's no cop-out, sorry.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by Fins on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:35PM (#17182728)

Not quite every corp out there has a business model of specifically misusing and abusing personal information, manipulating peoples' emotions, etc., etc.

I work for a rather minor corporate entity anyway, does it mean that I am always off the hook? /s

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by Vinnl on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:30AM (#17186044)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Just because their parent company might not be morally in the clear, that doesn't mean that moral criticisms by its employees is automatically or even more likely to be invalid.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by Fins on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:31PM (#17190942)

Oh, it might be valid, in regards to the magazine, alright. It just smacks of hypocrisy when their research is pretty much bound to be used for unethical purposes.

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