More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
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Re: More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
#2This article is from a couple of days ago. The story the article is about has been posted to HN several times and I think that there are may be some relevant updates to the story since this article was published if you wish to dive in:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
Re: More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
#3But how many applaud it? (In secret because supporting this is something you might get fired for...)
Re: More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
#4A draft copy of the disputed paper was posted over in Reddit, if this is of interest to anyone:
https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...
Re: More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
#5I thought she offered her resignation and they accepted?
Re: More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
#6Google has close to a 100k employees. I wonder how the other 99% feel. This is America no one is stopping her from starting the next google and crushing google.
This reminds of the Chappelle skit when keeping it real goes wrong.
She published a paper without getting it reviewed talking shit about google. I am sure she was generously compensated. If she wants to talk shit about google she should probably do it when she doesn't work there.
Re: More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
#7But how many applaud it? (In secret because supporting this is something you might get fired for...)
You might get fired for... supporting your bosses' decision to fire someone?
Re: More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
#8Google has close to a 100k employees. I wonder how the other 99% feel. This is America no one is stopping her from starting the next google and crushing google. This reminds of the Chappelle skit when keeping it real goes wrong. She published a paper without getting it reviewed talking shit about google. I am sure she was generously compensated. If she wants to talk shit about google she should probably do it when sh…
Why would she not work there, no company is perfect. Plus working there provides her with a particularly good insight when it comes to criticizing Google.
This is why so many of us look down on the US and their ease of firing people that don't buy into the groupthink.
Re: More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
#9Google has close to a 100k employees. I wonder how the other 99% feel. This is America no one is stopping her from starting the next google and crushing google. This reminds of the Chappelle skit when keeping it real goes wrong. She published a paper without getting it reviewed talking shit about google. I am sure she was generously compensated. If she wants to talk shit about google she should probably do it when sh…
"This is America no one is stopping her from starting the next google and crushing google."
aren't you tired of drinking from the ideological kool aid?
Re: More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
#10I thought she offered her resignation and they accepted?
She offered to resign on a particular schedule to work out things with her team if they insisted on retracting the paper. They terminated her employment immediately, while she was on vacation, because of an email she sent to the ERG about it, and they didn't even inform her direct manager.
Whatever they accepted, it wasn't the resignation she offered.
(And even if they had done so, I expect the folks here to remain unhappy about the circumstances that lead up to her offering her resignation. It's not a thing you do if things are going well.)