The LLM Warnings Google Fired Timnit Gebru Over Have All Come True
Hacker News·medium signal
A widely shared post (115 points, 106 comments) revisits the 2020 'Stochastic Parrots' concerns that led to Timnit Gebru's exit from Google, arguing each warning — environmental cost, bias, data provenance, and overreliance — has since materialized. The thread connects past AI-ethics dismissals to present-day harms now widely documented. It's a recurring reference point for practitioners debating whether the field ignored early red flags.