Notices by Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)

@potterybyosa @firesidefedi I think they forget that many nations and nationalities in Ethiopia were actually colonized, even though the colonization didn't happen by Europeans. People were told they couldn't speak in their own languages, they couldn't practice their customs except for the colonizing group's religion and customs etc. But we all learn in school to be proud of how Ethiopia was never colonized. But during the european scramble for Africa was the expansion of the Ethiopian empire.

@potterybyosa @firesidefedi You can also look at our history selling slaves while you're at it 😫

@potterybyosa @firesidefedi Yea but it is not a flex for the people who were colonized by other Ethiopians. People who are colonized don't necessarily feel like one type of colonizer is better than another. They just know that their lands were taken, their people sold into slavery, killed etc, their languages not allowed etc. That's the nuance that is missed in discussions of Ethiopia as a country that has never been colonized.

Truly wild reading.

"If such a prompt injection is included in a submission and it consequently results in a positive LLM-generated review, we consider this a form of collusion (which, as per past precedent, is a Code of Ethics violation) that both the paper authors and the reviewer would be held accountable for, because it involves the author explicitly requesting and receiving a positive review.

https://blog.iclr.cc/2025/08/26/policies-on-large-language-model-usage-at-iclr-2026/

While it is the LLM that is “obliging” by providing the positive review, the reviewer is ultimately responsible for the LLM’s review, and consequently they would bear the consequences. On the other hand, we consider the injection of such a prompt by an author to be an attempt at collusion which would similarly be a code of ethics violation."

And you know they added this because someone actually did it and a reviewer who I presume was using an LLM to review, found this out.

No other community deserves whatever is happening more than the research community that brought this on us. What you unleashed coming back to eat its own.

"We note that in the extreme case where an LLM might be used to produce an entire piece of research, we still require a human author for accountability."

What's the point of submitting papers or singing up as a reviewer at these conferences? Why don't we just have LLM generated "papers" be met with LLM generated "reviews" and call it a day?

We have been getting contacted by many people undergoing the ChatGPT fueled health issues mentioned in this article.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/i-feel-like-im-going-crazy-chatgpt-fuels-delusional-spirals-ae5a51fc?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAj4qqmoZlpHP2TN_Yn8UKIgmSba0kVukEvpO97vbFUY1vxLpfMxcxN1Oq8ChuY%3D&gaa_ts=6898ce4d&gaa_sig=lkld4pZSPOfz4EI7erawFiaRfpkqrueS_AC0lHE3HiCSwxbxNlub_noW2z_a2mmQPnDD-WGmJd3uu6xPosN8Eg%3D%3D

$2B funding rounds and $100M signing bonuses to individuals. Sure. There's no bubble here. Everything makes sense.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-meta-leadership-talent-rivalry/

"They were like some fringe group that nobody took seriously,” she says of how the tech billionaires who talked up AGI were viewed by those who worked in her field. “Everybody sort of laughed at them out of the room. But because of the money, the billions of dollars that were going into it, they started slowly taking over. Fast-forward to now, this conversation about superintelligence is basically mainstream.”

Again I stand by what I said.

"I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s."

We have the equivalent of the scientologists running the field of AI with untold amounts of money and power and we're the ones who have to do point by point rebuttals of their eugenicists dreams.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-politics-1235358129/

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My cousin's friend told me about a lawsuit she's part of. This organization (forgot the name) charged students for coding lessons (I think in javascript). My cousin's friend said that the company used to have office hours, multiple people to ask questions, etc.They then reduced staff to the point that there are no office hours, very few lectures & students are expected to many things on their own and, you guessed it, with the help of "AI."

The students have filed a lawsuit against the company.

I'm thinking about spending some time to write explainers on some topics that people have asked me about. Some would include synthesizing other people's work, some would include our own work etc. Any other topics you'd like to add to the mix?

"McDonald’s tried an AI-driven system for its drive-thrus for three years before ending the effort. During those years, the system made mistakes like trying to add bacon to an ice cream order and giving one customer an order of 260 Chicken McNuggets."

"Despite this dismal success rate, companies are going all-in on AI, driven largely by the belief that everyone else is doing it. Nearly two-thirds of CEOs (64%) say “the risk of falling behind drives them to invest in some technologies before they have a clear understanding of the value they bring to the organization,” according to the study."

https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/klarna-ai-humans-return-on-investment/

"The tech-first-ask-questions-later approach has resulted in some memorable flubs. Air Canada once employed a chatbot that made up a refund policy when chatting with a customer; it was forced to give back $880 to the client despite trying to argue it wasn’t responsible for the bot’s actions."

The oil spill metaphor is elaborated in Section 6 of Chirag Shah and Emily's paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468.

Sometimes I flag them as spam, other times fake accounts, but given that the platforms themselves encourage people to use chatbots to spam all of us, they don't have it as an option that we can report.