The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true

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Google fired Timnit Gebru in 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper that warned about the dangers of large language models. Every warning in the paper has now come true, despite the industry's efforts to downplay them.

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Hacker News Front PageThe LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true6/4/2026, 5:31:24 PM

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