[IshKebab]

I don't know if they were really that "woke". Apparently the paper covered these issues:

> Gebru had co-authored a paper on the risks of very large language models, regarding their environmental and financial costs, inscrutability leading to unknown dangerous biases, inability of the models to understand the concepts underlying what they learn, and the potential for using them to deceive people.

Environmental/financial costs are pretty "woke" I guess (in that it's stupid to complain about them; they're just a fact). Maybe the deception issue is "woke" too because it's pretty much inevitable and therefore uninteresting.

But hidden biases and lack of real understanding are definitely legit problems.

In any case she was fired for not highlighting new research into solutions for biases, not for being too woke.

There's definitely more to the story than we've heard though. I generally believe the company doing the firing in these instances because they normally can't give their side of the story so everything you hear is biased towards the person that was fired. That and firing people is really hard in most civilised countries. You have to really screw up for them to resort to firing.

[Karsteski]

Out of curiosity, what is an uncivilized country?