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I'm not sure if I should be surprised or not to learn that Timnit Gebru is on fedi.

@WomanCorn that thread is about as tedious as i expected it to be tbh, beginning to understand the "twitter colonizers" complaint a bit

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>Timnit Gebru (Amharic: ትምኒት ገብሩ; born 1983/1984) is an American computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and data mining.She is an advocate for diversity in technology and co-founder of Black in AI, a community of Black researchers working in artificial intelligence (AI). She is the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR).
Oh.
@WomanCorn @WomanCorn She did seem like an annoying race-baiter.
What was she fired over?

@Hyolobrika there was a fracas over some paper that was either (unclear) Bad, or Bad For Google, they demanded she withdraw it, she demanded the names and reasoning of everyone involved in the request, and said if she didn't get them, she would quit. Google replied <Your terms are acceptable.>

@Hyolobrika she was the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team. She got fired over some drama.

I saw a thread go by where she was trying to come up with a Plan for Racism on fedi and it was just as terrible as you would guess.

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