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I see that Fernando Pereira is donating to OpenReview (with a public announcement) because he apparently cares about "open science" or "open research" or some such. That's news to me. He is the Google VP who wrote a condescending, bizarre, what was meant to be anonymous, "privileged and confidential" letter which was then sent to the HR department, instructing me and my coauthors to retract our Stochastic Parrots paper.

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all being bucketed under "AI", is misleading. This is why @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) and @Alex Hanna say to name the specific thing being discussed rather than calling it "AI". 🧵

Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, writes that my collaborator and I warned about these eugenicists a few years ago and were called all sorts of names. As she writes, we were "treated as extremists and conspiracy theorists." Even so-called "critics" of large language models came for me unsummoned as I spoke up about this. Marcus and LeCun were on the same side on this one, the side of attacking me for calling out these eugenicists.

Is It Too Late?

No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who actually told you so. And then it will be rinse and repeat, onto the next grift.

Friends, given what is happening in the US, take a bit of time to read this wonderful article about Ariel Koren and Respond Crisis Translation where @Alex Hanna and I are on the board. Ariel was pushed out of Google for uncovering Project Nimbus, Google's collaboration with the Israeli military on cloud services and "AI." RCT is on the frontlines of protecting immigrants being hunted down around the country. Please support RCT if you have the money or tell others in your .

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