> My guess is that they don't make standards up on the fly, and no unique standards are applied to Timnit and not to literally everyone else. It is not dispute

> My guess is that they don't make standards up on the fly, and no unique standards are applied to Timnit and not to literally everyone else. It is not disputed by Google that special standards (an additional, non-standard review process) were applied to this paper. There is some lack of clarity about how often that additional review process is applied (https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2020/12/24/google-telling-scientists-give-ai-positive-spin/ https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2020/12/24/google-te..., https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-research-exclusive-idUSKBN2AP1AC https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-research-...). But broadly it seems to not have much to do with the technical merit of the papers, despite what Google originally claimed, and instead be a legal/PR process.