We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google

Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by mlyle on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:06AM (#25312217)

Here we're talking about something different: suppressing the speech of a person of color raising some well-thought out arguments about racism that are problematic to the employer's core business.

Google has set up a research organization that ostensibly is empowered to ask and ultimately work to openly resolve difficult questions like these... but when the rubber hits the road, they instead throw the researcher under the bus.

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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by ioctrl on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:32AM (#25312337)

What are the arguments about racism that were suppressed? The paper that didn't pass internal review was about the external costs of training large models (correction: the paper also discussed language models not adhering to anti-racist language standards).

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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by TaylorAlexander on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:34AM (#25312341)

Race comes up several times in the article. Did you miss it?

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