Posted on 11/04/2022 10:44:25 AM PDT by cotton1706
Twitter began its highly anticipated mass layoffs Thursday evening by eliminating its top internal critics. Twitter’s Ethical AI team, according to former staff, is no more.
Multiple members of Twitter’s Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency and Accountability (META) team, including its former leader, posted on Twitter saying they were no longer at the company. At least one of the former workers suggested the entire team was being disbanded. The apparent layoffs impacting the company’s strongest internal watchdog group comes as thousands more brace for cuts potentially impacting around half of the company’s staff according to previous reports.
Gizmodo found tweets from around half a dozen META team members claiming they were impacted by the layoffs. META head Rumman Chowdhury posted a screenshot of apparently being locked out of her Twitter email account alongside a tweet reading, “Has it already started? Happy layoff eve!” Chowdhury, who spearheaded a number of transparency initiatives at the company including launching a first of its kind algorithmic bias bounty challenge, went on to say, “it’s definitely only downhill on this hellsite.”
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Cry me a river, free speech hating commies.
Any department with such a bullshit name can easily go.
Payroll, Accounting, Sales, HR, etc. i.e. real positions, you guys can stay, but there might be some cuts.
Agreed. Good riddance.
“Will code for food”.
Twitter had an “Ethical Team”?
Who knew ?
Well, they can get a job with the FBI and Dept. of Homeland Security helping the Biden Admin. harrass and censor conservatives.
Kinda like a Department of Justice.
Bye Felicia!
“Algorithmic bias bounty challange” things that make you go hmmmmm.
It’s annoying as hell that these weasels were employed there at all. How much suppression did they engage in during covid when we only wanted to ask questions?
Slightly off topic — what the hell is ‘Welp’? Shouldn’t it simply be ‘Well’?
Joan Deitchman
@JoanDeitchman
🫡 Yep, the team is gone. The team that was researching and pushing for algorithmic transparency and algorithmic choice. The team that was studying algorithmic amplification. The team that was inventing and building ethical AI tooling and methodologies. All that is gone.
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What does this even mean? Did the woman even write code there? All I know is that their algorithms worked for the woke and liberals. And my guess is it was usually humans who were zapping conservatives at twitter. Or booting them off twitter.
The great news just keep coming. Thanks Elon.
People say it; but I’ve always seen is spelled ‘whelp’...which raises another question...
Pronouns: was / were
You don't need legal until you really need legal. And all but the top tier attorneys are probably mercenary enough to go with the flow.
> Twitter’s Ethical AI team, according to former staff, is no more. <
Is MSN trying to cheer me up? If so, it worked!
We regret to inform Twitter that welp is a word, even if it's not in the dictionary. Welp is a synonym of the interjection well, which is used to express surprise or signal the beginning of a comment or discussion ("Well, what have we here?" "Well, you're never going to believe this, but..."). But welp has a sense of resignation and finality that well often doesn't have
Source:Yes, 'Welp' Is a Real Word.
“What does this even mean? Did the woman even write code there? “
I thought the same, haha.
Having worked several large companies, it’s probably the people who ALWAYS seem to be in some meeting or conference room, and really DOING anything.
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