Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
by pseudalopex on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:50PM
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She didn't offer to resign immediately. Her manager explicitly rejected her actual offer and imposed new terms as punishment for her email to the group.
Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
by sokoloff on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:18PM
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If the text Jeff Dean wrote below is overwhelmingly true, I'd agree that she resigned rather than was fired. I suspect that it is overwhelmingly true as I'm fairly sure that Google legal would have reviewed it and ensured they didn't say anything falsifiable and likely that this paragraph is entirely true.
> Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google.
Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
by pseudalopex on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:18PM
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Notice he doesn't say she resigned immediately.
Do you believe she fabricated Megan's email?[1]
[1] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364735446331392
I don't have a strong opinion in the matter (and have no connection to Google), but if she in fact unambiguously offered her resignation conditioned on her paper not being approved to publish and Google accepted her offer, I don't see how she can turn around and claim she was fired.