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Except she is the abuser.

• tomp 6y ago
  She is accused of being an abuser. I think we've seen enough fake accusations of various kinds of abuse (i.e. crimes without proof, one person's word vs another's) in the past few years to know better.
  • dash2 6y ago
    Has anyone (except grandparent) accused her of being an abuser? I don't think that is what Google claimed.
  • UncleOxidant 6y ago
    There's no evidence that she was accused of abuse. How do you abuse people in an academic paper, anyway? Seems much more likely that someone higher up didn't like what she might have implied in the paper in that it might have clashed with company policy somehow. EDIT: a bit more info from the NYTimes: "In an interview with The Times, Dr. Gebru said her exasperation stemmed from the company’s treatment of a research paper she had written with six other researchers, four of them at Google. The paper, also reviewed by The Times, pinpointed flaws in a new breed of language technology, including a system built by Google that underpins the company’s search engine." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/technology/google-researcher-timnit-gebru.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/technology/google-researc...
    • tomp 6y ago
      tbh I didn't look in details, I guess I mistakenly believed the HN comments... my original comment was only targeted at the treatment of the (accused) abusers by the corporate HR, nothing with any specific person