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Gebru wrote a research paper and circulated it for feedback. Google managers said "retract the paper because we say so." Gebru responded with "I'd rather resign
by curiousllama 6y ago
Gebru wrote a research paper and circulated it for feedback. Google managers said "retract the paper because we say so." Gebru responded with "I'd rather resign (and also you suck)."
Google "accepted" the resignation (i.e. fired her).
- mcguire 6y ago"I said here are the conditions. If you can meet them great I’ll take my name off this paper, if not then I can work on a last date. Then she sent an email to my direct reports saying she has accepted my resignation. So that is google for you folks. You saw it happen right here." And I've lost the link to the tweet.
- robertlagrant 6y agoThat's not it.
- colordrops 6y agoI was able to discern this, but it doesn't explain why they wanted her to retract the paper. The contents of the paper and why they want her to retract it are key to the story, otherwise it's he-said-she-said.
- mda 6y agoExcept that this is not exactly what happened, read the comments at the top.