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Can someone give a tl;dr of what actually happened? I saw this incident mentioned many times from both the side of Timnit and Google and still have no idea why

• deleted 6y ago
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• wryoak 6y ago
  I can't say I have a deep understanding but it really looks to me like a banal miscommunication that has become a war.
• iab 6y ago
  Differences of opinion on to-be published work, focusing (I believe) on bias in large-scale language models. Gebru was told to retract which was unacceptable, posed an ultimatum to Google (who accepted, immediately without negotiation) leading to her immediate termination.
• benjohnson 6y ago
  My opinion: A hard working researcher had the the flaw of not being able to produtivly work with some people. Some of those people were good and some of those people were bad. At some point, some of those people decided that the cost of drama exceeded the value the work. Much more drama ensued.
• scared2 6y ago
  She had toxic relationship with her employer (google). She wrote a paper about Google's deep learning nlp google considered it a bad publicity. They asked her to include references for her claim. she gave precondition. if precondition is not met she would resign. google took that line immediately and told her "your resignation is accepted". that's the whole story.