It was activism masquerading as science. Many researches noted that positives and negatives were not presented in a balanced way. New approaches and efforts were not credited.
I haven't kept track but the activism of the trio could be severe sometimes.
(Anecdotally, I have faced a bite-sized brunt: When discussion surrounding this paper was going on in Twitter, I had mentioned in my timeline (in a neutral tone) that "dust needed to settle to understand what was going wrong". This was unfortunately picked up & RTed by Gebru & the mob responded by name-calling, threatening DMs accusing me of racism/misogyny etc, and one instance of a call to my employer asking to terminate me - all for that one single tweet. I don't want confrontations - not my forte to deal.)
> This was unfortunately picked up & RTed by Gebru & the mob responded by name-calling, threatening DMs accusing me of racism/misogyny etc, and one instance of a call to my employer asking to terminate me - all for that one single tweet.
Wait until an LLM flags your speech and gets you in trouble. That'll be a real hoot compared to random individuals who likely have been chased off Twitter by now.
