[utopiah]

True but also... she wasn't a software engineer putting code in production nor a researcher working no the fundamentals of machine learning negotiating a raise.

She was part of the "Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team" of what was then, and still is now, one of the corporations World wide spending the largest amount of resources precisely on using AI commercially.

[Aurornis]

I'm saying the paper itself wasn't a bombshell or even that noteworthy. The reason it got PR and continues to come up was because the authors manufactured this self-inflicted drama around it, not because it was leaking secret revelations that harmed the company.

[marshray]

Never underestimate the power of a catchy title that resonates with the intuitions and preconceptions of people who will never read the paper.

Cf. https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-think...

[simianwords]

Timnit got popular because she was part of Woke 1.