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Re:About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean by btilly on Friday December 04, 2020 @07:26PM (#25310275)
A paper from Google saying that Google knows that its systems discriminate against minority groups can open Google up to liability for a class action lawsuit from said minority groups against Google. And the fact that Google knows increases the damages that they can look for.

The same paper from outside of Google also creates liability, but now the argument for increased damages becomes about whether Google knew.

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Re:About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean by oh_sigh on Friday December 04, 2020 @07:29PM (#25310296)
That would be more of a journalistic paper than a research paper then. Timnit's research, at least in the past, is along the lines of "Hey, this <thing you thought benign> is not actually benign"
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