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For context: 1. Gebru is alleged to have terrorized a Google Brain manuscript discussion forum with unfounded accusations of racist disregard for her contribut
by civilized 6y ago
For context:
1. Gebru is alleged to have terrorized a Google Brain manuscript discussion forum with unfounded accusations of racist disregard for her contributions https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_timnit_gebru_and_google_megathread/geqzqlq/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...
There is some disagreement within this thread as to exactly what happened, but it seems to me that Gebru had a tendency of taking perceived slights and blowing them out of proportion, creating a more difficult work environment.
2. Mitchell was fired for stealing thousands of company emails
I wasn't impressed with the process Google used to rid themselves of Gebru, but let's not pretend that Google lost the ethics A-team here.
- tibbydudeza 6y agoMitchell ran a scripts to scrape emails (wonder if it was her company ones or mailing lists for the AI group) for signs of racism (heck how on earth does that work) against Gebru.
- mcphage 6y ago> heck how on earth does that work Scraping text to analyze what is being talked about is what Google does.
- tibbydudeza 6y agoWords but can it figure out the intent and the subtext behind it ??. It is not as cut and dry as a KKK recruitment flyer.