"As Dr. Mitchell defended Dr. Gebru, the company removed her, too. She had searched through her own Google email account for material that would support their position and forwarded emails to another account, which somehow got her into trouble." shorturl.at/jkBK2
"Google declined to comment for this article."
After they made a statement making @mmitchell_ai sound like a spy of some sort saying she had "exfiltrated" "thousands of documents" that were "business sensitive" & contained people's "sensitive data."
I'm glad no one buys it.
They made that statement a week or so after locking her out & then I KNEW they must have decided to fire her cause one doesn't say that about an employee they haven't decided to fire & smear. Yet they waited 4 more weeks to package it into their string of announcements.
"“The answer to anxieties over new technology is not to run ‘tests’ inconsistent with how the service is designed to be used, and to amplify the test’s false and misleading conclusions through the news media,” an Amazon executive, Matt Wood, wrote...
Oh our friend Matt Wood.
Similar to what Jeff Dean said about our work. The playbook is consistent.
"Her resignation was accepted immediately" Not really though cause I never gave my resignation which was to be accepted. I think at this point even the Google people know not to say I resigned....
"He declined to discuss the details of Dr. Mitchell’s dismissal but said she had violated the company’s code of conduct and security policies."
He says while protecting, promoting & providing safe landings for harassers & bullies who apparently don't violate the company's CoC.
"Zoubin Ghahramani, said the company must be willing to tackle hard issues. There are “uncomfortable things that responsible A.I. will inevitably bring up,” he said. “We need to be comfortable with that discomfort.”
Except I see him not taking a stand & going along with things.
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Please watch this important video about the abuse Haben has received for speaking up. I'll also list out ways in which people have come at me. Here's the playbook.
1. Every news showing atrocities in Tigray & not solely assigning responsibility to TPLF & only TPLF is #FakeNews.
Mind you thats countless outlets with respected journalistic standards. Nothing can be real. Verified videos, satellite imagery, countless witness testimonies whether they are refugees or victims of rape, or families of those killed, nothing is real. Everything is fake news.
2. People accuse you of speaking up a lot about Tigray and not speaking up about what is happening to Amharas. There are horrible things happening. Most recently 29 ethnic Amharas were massacred in Wollega.
"Here, we detail the intensity and ferocity of this abuse, and demonstrate how it is designed not only to vilify a journalism icon, but to discredit journalism itself, and shatter public trust in facts...."
"These attacks have also created an enabling environment for Ressa’s persecution and prosecution in the Philippines. Now, her life is at risk and she faces the prospect of decades in jail, proving that there is nothing virtual about online violence."
"Despite fledgling attempts to address hate speech within the social media ecosystem, the platforms are the vectors which facilitate these attacks, creating an enabling environment for the State-led legal harassment of Ressa."
@schrep@_KarenHao I would not respond like this to Karen's extensive, well thought out piece. Those of use at the forefront of this field, are not "less motivated" after reading the piece.
The issue is that we have fought hard to convince people in power, such as yourself who...
@schrep@_KarenHao have not faced the very real consequences of misinformation and all other issues that have been fueling all sorts of issues. Most recently, crimes against humanity in Ethiopia. @L_badikho has even been studying this in the Moroccan setting, ON HIS OWN TIME not because its fun...
@schrep@_KarenHao@L_badikho but because his life & the lives of many others are in danger & the shallow understanding of FB executives & lack of will to put required resources, makes it necessary for him to do this. Its impossible to convince those in power of the gravity because they're not the ones dying.
"She responded to Bender that she was trying to get Google to consider the ethical implications of large language models."
Well. Thats how THAT went.
I didn't "exit" "leave" or "depart" tho in so much as I was fired.
"With very few laws regulating AI in the United States, companies and academic institutions often make their own rules about what is and isn't okay when developing increasingly powerful software. "
In a statement, Google said it has hundreds of people working on responsible AI, and has produced more than 200 publications related to building responsible AI in the past year
Thats their MO any time they fire someone, they like to make them look like they are JUST ONE of many
This paper already seems to be making an impact, so its extra disheartening that those who spent so much time contributing to it, and without whom it wouldn't have been what it is, aren't allowed to receive credit for it. Every single author was integral to the paper. 2/5
I just can't believe that this was the result of simply writing this paper. Honestly, just sitting here at a conference watching a talk, and waiting for Q&A and reflecting a tiny bit, I can't believe this was the result months after I first sent Emily this message: 3/5
The damage Jeff Dean has done with his gaslighting email & insinuating we were trying to dox anonymous reviewers in some sort of review process because we're not researchers who can take criticism: 1st Hacker News comment about this NBC article: 1\4 nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
"Important to remember where these allegations originate from. Timnit Gebru was fired from Google after threatening to quit unless Google reveled the identities of the reviewers of her paper that was not received well while accusing them of sex/race based discrimination."
2/4
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=263973…
"You can find some of the experiences of her from previous colleagues. You'll find the toxicity that she used in her time there and how she is picking the race/sex card on every situation. This is likely a continuation of that." 3/4