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> Also, ImageNet’s website was down on the day that we decided to perform this research. We therefore paid an unemployed person to download 100 examples of paint-splatter artwork by searching Pinterest using the query “paint splatter wallpaper”.

Such brutal honesty would be welcome in other papers.



The author recently quit Google[0], so I believe he's unemployed. I think that's the joke (also, he really likes his memes).

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/mcmillen/status/10863837264504053...


There's a footnote on "unemployed person" with the text "the first author."


> We therefore paid an unemployed person

> Such brutal honesty would be welcome in other papers.

To say nothing of the commitment to employment fairness!




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