Absolutely, that's the only sane stance towards it. The original poster seems to imply that it's impossible to do sustainable ethical business because of confli

Absolutely, that's the only sane stance towards it. The original poster seems to imply that it's impossible to do sustainable ethical business because of conflicts of interests, but there are many ways to deal with such conflicts of interests without firing researchers or suppressing papers. This case was really just mismanagement by Google. They could have just as well taken those researchers seriously, allow them to investigate whether there is systemic discrimination and then try to correct it, as was the whole point of hiring them in the first place. AI ethics researchers all over the world are publishing articles about the dangers of serious discrimination by large language models. Not addressing this and firing researchers who were working on it on their behalf is not going to help Google in the long run at all.