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But... Stochastic Parrots.
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.
Her name is Timnit Gebru.
She co-led the Ethical AI team at Google. She co-wrote a paper called "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" with Emily Bender at the University of Washington and two other researchers. The paper was 14 pages long. It was submitted to a top AI ethics conference. And it was the reason Google decided that one of the most senior Black women in AI research could no longer work there.
The story Google told publicly was that she resigned. The story she told, confirmed by 2,695 of her colleagues in an open letter, was that she was fired by email while on vacation because she refused to either retract the paper or remove her name from it.
The paper had not even been published yet.
Here is what she actually wrote, and why every prediction inside it has now come true.
The first warning was about scale itself. Bender and Gebru argued that training ever-larger models on ever-larger scrapes of the internet would produce systems that appeared fluent but had no actual understanding of language. They called these systems stochastic parrots because they would repeat patterns from training data with statistical confidence and zero comprehension. The paper predicted that this apparent intelligence would fool both users and developers into trusting outputs that were structurally incapable of being reliable.
This was 2020. GPT-3 had just come out. The paper predicted the hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
The second warning was about bias amplification. The paper documented in detail that internet-scale training data contains systematic overrepresentation of dominant viewpoints and underrepresentation of marginalized ones. The models would not just absorb this bias. They would amplify it, because the optimization process rewards confident outputs, and confidence in language patterns tracks frequency in the training set.
The prediction was that hiring tools built on these models would discriminate against women. That healthcare triage tools would underperform on Black patients. That loan approval systems would entrench inequality while presenting their decisions as neutral algorithmic judgment.
Every one of those things has now been documented in deployment.
Amazon's hiring algorithm penalized resumes that contained the word "women" in any context. Healthcare risk scoring algorithms used by major US hospitals were found to systematically underestimate the medical needs of Black patients. Apple Card's credit algorithm gave wives credit lines 10x lower than their husbands for the same financial profile.
The third warning was about environmental cost. The paper calculated that training a single large language model produced emissions equivalent to the lifetime output of 5 cars. The prediction was that the race to scale would create an environmental footprint that would eventually rival entire industries.
In 2024, Google's emissions were up 48% from 2019, and the company explicitly blamed AI infrastructure. Microsoft's were up 29%, same reason. Both companies have now quietly abandoned the climate commitments they were publicly celebrating the year Gebru was fired.
The fourth warning was about documentation. The paper argued that the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit. Nobody at Google, OpenAI, Meta, or any other lab could tell you with confidence what was in the data their models were trained on. This was not a temporary problem to be solved later. It was a permanent feature of the approach.
In 2023, researchers discovered that the LAION-5B dataset, used to train Stable Diffusion and other major image models, contained thousands of images of child sexual abuse material. The companies that had trained on the dataset had no way of knowing. The paper predicted that category of failure 3 years before it was found.
The fifth warning was the one Google cared about most.
Bender and Gebru argued that the deployment of these systems would centralize linguistic and cultural power in the hands of the small number of companies that could afford to train them. The internet would become a place where the dominant voice was a statistical average of dominant voices, presented as a neutral assistant. Languages underrepresented in the training data would degrade over time as more web content was generated by these systems and fed back into the next training run.
This is now happening in real time. A 2024 study found that 57% of new web content in English is AI-generated or AI-assisted. Researchers studying low-resource languages have documented active degradation in translation quality, because the synthetic content fed back into training is itself worse in those languages.
The paper Google fired her for predicted the model collapse problem before model collapse had a name.
The mechanism behind why this all happened is the part of her work that nobody quotes.
Gebru's argument was not that AI is dangerous in some abstract sci-fi sense. Her argument was that AI is dangerous in a very specific structural sense. The technology was being built by a small group of researchers who shared similar backgrounds, worked at similar companies, and were rewarded for shipping products faster than competitors. The incentive structure made it impossible for safety, ethics, and bias concerns to slow anything down. Anyone inside the system who raised those concerns was either ignored, sidelined, or removed.
She was making that argument from inside Google.
Then Google proved her right by removing her.
The team Google had built to make sure their AI was safe was dismantled in 90 days because they did the job they had been hired to do. Margaret Mitchell, the other co-lead of the Ethical AI team, was fired two months after Gebru for searching through her own emails for evidence of how Gebru had been treated.
Gebru did not stop. She founded DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute, in 2021. The mission is to do AI research outside the control of the companies that have a financial interest in not hearing the answers.
Every prediction in the Stochastic Parrots paper has now been validated by deployment. Hallucinations are an industry-wide problem the largest labs cannot solve. Bias amplification has been documented in hiring, healthcare, lending, and criminal justice. Environmental costs are larger than entire small countries. Training data audits remain impossible. Model collapse is an active research crisis at every major lab.
The question worth sitting with is the one almost no one in the industry will say out loud.
Every researcher with the technical credibility to call out these problems watched what happened to her in December 2020 and made a calculation about their own career. The number of people willing to speak publicly about safety and ethics issues inside the major AI labs collapsed after that firing and has not recovered.
The researcher Google fired for warning about exactly what is now happening was right.
The company that fired her is now the second-largest deployer of the technology she warned about.
And the people inside that company who agree with her are not allowed to say so.
idk if I've told this story on here before but one time I was sitting at my desk at work and a random dog I'd never seen before strolled into my office and curled up at my feet. and I was like oh you are adorable but what the fuck?
then a woman knocked on the door and said "oh I'm so sorry he's a therapy dog he's trained to seek out people in severe distress"
and I was like right okay, just getting my whole life drive-by roasted by a dog then
so when we signed the lease there was like. a really bad gas leak in here
that’s not actually relevant to the story I just want you to know what type of person I am
anyway when we were moving in the woman in the apartment right next to us, tiny old lady, walks up to my mom and says “Oh, it’ll be so nice to have neighbors again! Especially after what happened last time….”
and then she just. walked into her home and didn’t elaborate.
she hasn’t spoken a word to us since.
it’s been like 10 months
there are two secret doors in my closet. Like, ‘Get Out’ secret doors.
I’m literally?? Allergic to this apartment? And we can’t figure out why???
like it’s not dusty and I asked the office if the last person who lived here had a cat, but they said no and also all the rugs were deep cleaned before we moved in so I just uhhh….can’t breathe in my own home that’s great. I literally have to take multiple allergy meds every single day or else I just. stop breathing. it’s fun.
my room is like….90% hotter than the rest of the apartment and we can’t figure out why. Like, even the building’s repair guy came in here one time and was like ‘wtf’ it’s a REALLY noticeable temperature change even when I just step out into the hallway
sometimes the doors just like….unlock themselves??? like I’ve literally locked the deadbolt, walked away, and came back a few minutes later and it’s unlocked
the building’s basement is a storage area but it’s also literally straight up out of a murder movie I’m not even kidding like everyone refuses to go down there
and the thing is…because of where my bedroom is located, every time a door opens and closes in the building I hear it, so I always know when people are like in and out
but sometimes my mom will get home from work and be like ‘why is the basement door open’ (the entrance door is right across from us like I can see it if I look out the peep hole) and I’ll go check and YEAH it’s open and pitch black all you can see are the top of the stairs…but the thing is, nearly every time this happens, I hadn’t heard the door open, and I hadn’t heard anyone else leave their apartments. which is. literally impossible?? so uh there’s that
if you open up the fridge, the door stays open until you physically close it, even if you only opened it like a crack, it doesn’t budge. but sometimes I open it up and I’ll like, turn around for a second and while I’m not looking it just SLAMS shut.
uh as I’m typing this Bollywood music just started blasting from directly above me only like….the dude that lives there isn’t home so idk why that’s happening
every now and then I hear a fox (or some other animal that makes That Sound idk) screaming outside my window but there is literally…no where around here for a forest creature to show up from like. we’re on a busy road where is this poor thing coming from???
there’s been a few times where I’m awake at like the really early hours of the morning and everything is dead quiet and all the sudden I hear a train’s whistle blowing, sounding close enough that if I looked out the window I could see it, except, we’re literally no where near a train station??? maybe the polar express is looking for someone around here idk
there’s two mirrors in my bathroom right. The big one over the sink, and then the one over the medicine cabinet that faces the shower, so when you’re at the sink you get double reflections of every thing, and it REALLY makes me uncomfortable because I’ve always been creeped out by mirrors right
so anyway a couple months ago I was in the shower, and I needed to get something that I forgot to bring in so I opened up the curtain….and I just….didn’t have a reflection in the mirror???
like I saw an open curtain, a tile wall, running water. I was just. Not in the picture….don’t like that.
all the walls are white and there’s big windows everywhere so you’d think it’d be like. a Light apartment right. but it’s not??? like we have lamps all over the place and it’s still SO DARK, it’s like the walls are eating the light
one time I had my friend Raychel over and I was explaining how weird it was to her, and then I was like ‘it’s getting dark outside I’ll just show you’ and I turned on the lights and….the room got bright as fuck
every inch of the room bathed in light, completely disregarding every thing I had just told her about it….I was literally So Angry lmao
mysterious pieces of metal just kinda show up in the garbage disposal??? like all the sudden it’ll stop working so we’ll call the repair guy and he’ll just find these weird ass looking shards of metal that are Not Coming From Us and he’s just like ‘hm. that’s weird.’ every time like??
the entrances to get into the complex are like….weirdly hidden lmao no one can ever get here on their first try
I ALWAYS feel like I’m being watched in my room like every time I have my back to the window it’s like I can feel eyes burning into me and every time I check I don’t see anything so at first it’s like, okay, I’m just being paranoid, but the thing is like. If I’m in my mom’s room I don’t have this problem?? If I’m in the living room which is 50% window, I don’t have this problem??? Like it’s literally just this one space and I don’t understand why
the actual layout of the complex like….doesn’t make sense lmao like driving around from one entrance to the other? simple, clean cut, it’s fine. walking around??? a fucking maze. you start to notice like…buildings where the placement doesn’t make any sense??? and then you’re like ‘wait…where exactly tf does my backyard come out to’ and the answer Doesn’t Make Sense and then you realize you realize the route you take to the main office to drop off the rent check is somehow a little different every time you take it and all in all I might be living in a lowkey labyrinth or some shit idk man
one time it was late at night and I had parked all the way at the end of the parking lot, so furthest from the building but I was still standing Directly Straight In Front Of The Building okay and I start walking towards the door. And as I’m like midway there, I briefly looked behind me for a second, and when I turned back a second later I saw someone in all black with the hood pulled over their face speed walking away past the steps, and like I glanced away for another second, then it hit me what I saw so I turned back, and absolutely no one was there. Idk if I explained that well enough but essentially in the brief seconds it took me to do a double take, someone appeared and disappeared. There wasn’t enough time for them to have left my line of sight altogether and there wasn’t even really any place for them to go, and then I realized they were walking like, BEHIND the bushes and trees line, so like right in front of the windows, and the spot he was walking away from…had to be my bedroom window??? I’m literally still so creeped out about it help
that’s all I can think of right now but like. idk. it’s Weird
Gonna take this time to answer some frequently asked questions:
- the gas leak is not still happening. I am not just hallucinating things from a gas leak. we’ve been living here too long. we would’ve died already. I only bothered mentioning it because it seemed very ‘Stupid Main Character Ignores A Warning Right Off The Bat’-ish and I wanted to make it clear that I Know I’m like this lmao
- yes, we have a carbon monoxide detector
- no, there’s no mold or anything, but there is a lot of tree coverage, so honestly that’s probably the issue
- okay so like we bought curtains for all over but the thing is there’s not room on the wall to attach a tension rod to, so we literally need to drill something into the wall to hang curtains on but neither of us think it’d be a good idea if we did that so my mom keeps trying to call her handyman but he keeps running away to Italy and not answering her calls so like. curtains are in our possession but out of use right now. but there ARE blinds so it’s not like we’re just open to the world 24/7 you know? When I’m in the driveway I absolutely cannot see into my bedroom. They’re functioning blinds….still get that Feeling though
Also, some fun additions since I made this post:
I’ve been finding like. A lot of dead flies on the window sills
There’s now been a couple instances where I’m in either my room or the bathroom and I’ll hear my mother say something, only I can’t make out what she’s saying, but like, I know what her VOICE sounds like you know, so I’ll open the door to ask her what she said and she either didn’t say anything, was asleep, or wasn’t even home so uh. Not loving that!
So like, the light timer for the building is always messed up- it’s always on during the day and dark at night. No matter how many times they send someone out to fix it, it never sticks. And you just kinda think, wow, this apartment complex isnreally shitty with electricity. And you move on.
But then you go out and come home in the dead of night and you see Every Single Other Building has the lights on and yours just looks like a black hole in the middle..
Also, nothing is creepier than standing alone in a pitch black hallway, so dark you can’t see your own hand in front of your face, and as you’re struggling to get your key in the door you hear the basement door slowly start to open behind you, but you can’t hear walking or breathing or anything and then when you finally get your door open and the light spills out you see there’s absolutely no one there!! NOT FUN!!
Also, the other day I was in the living room while my mom was in the bathroom, and all the sudden I heard her- clear as day- scream my name, like something bad was happening or she needed help, she sounded scared- so I bang on the door to see what’s wrong and she comes out, mouth wash still in her mouth, because she had been gargling and couldn’t have screamed, and she also didn’t hear anything- NO THANKS!!
went out to get the mail and noticed part of the lock on the basement door had been clawed off. the door itself is still actually locked but….part of it is missing and you can literally see scratch marks around it. what the fuck
- last October I took 3 selfies in quick succession, the first and the last were nice and normal! the middle one, however, had a weird almost barcode like glitch on it, I was inexplicably in black and white, and there was a shadow figure leaning into the frame. no one’s been able to explain that to me!! not a fan!!
- my mom has now had several instances where she’s been woken up by the feeling of someone grabbing hee feet- she’s certain it’s my dad Sending A Sign, but like, my mom has super gross feet and my dad always joked about how he didn’t like them so I cannot picture a world where he’d wanna touch them even in a non corporeal way lmfao
- one time when my friend was over there was an unexplainable, super clear, knock on the back door when absolutely no one was there (or even in the surrounding apartments!) HOWEVER the friend in question was getting into witchcraft and was getting signs from a deity that wanted her to worship them (she THINKS it was Persephone) so like, that’s probably what was going on there
- still multiple occasions where I’ll hear my mom talking (without being able to make out what she’s saying) but when I check she’s either asleep or not even home
BTW here’s the nice, normal picture I took last year and the absolutely cursed picture taken LITERALLY NOT A SECOND AFTER. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME ALREADY.
NEW LORE DROP one of the maintenance guys was over installing a new light fixure in the living room (it’s bright as hell, and somehow makes the apartment Even Darker btw. hate that!) and we were talking about the snow and stuff and he made a comment like ‘it sucks you guys can’t control your own heat’ and my mom was like ‘we…do control our own heat? the rent doesn’t cover the heat’ and this man went OOOOOHH YEAH THIS IS THE BUILDING THAT HAD THAT CRAZY FIRE
@zagreuses-toast we only drink bottled water 😭 and also I’m not taking any allergy pills anymore! Flonase once in a while, but I haven’t been taking anything daily for years now. we’ve been here for like six years lmfao this is an old post. as for gas, like, again, I think we’ve been here long enough that we would’ve been more seriously affected, and also they do bring people out to check the meters and detectors, so I think we’re in the clear there. also, a lot of this stuff is like….spaced out? like nothing will be weird for months on end and then one weird notable thing will happen. I feel like if it was hallucinations it would be more consistent?? I would love for this to have a mundane reason but I think shit just happens sometimes 😭
I truly hate to bring this post back because we were doing so well, but yesterday this one halloween decoration kept flying off it’s perch multiple times, and we were like ‘maybe the heat is turning on and hitting it!’ but then it uh. wasn’t the heat so we just gave up and left it alone.
this afternoon, I was napping on the couch and was woken up by a clear loud knocking! no one at the front door or back door. the more I looked around for it the more it sounded like it was coming from inside the walls! 🙃 I was like ‘maybe the upstairs neighbor is doing something’ but it was like….a very consistent knocking, not what it usually sounds when the lady upstairs is hammering something, and when I knocked back on the ceiling it didn’t stop but it DID change the knock pattern. whole thing went on for like maybe 3 minutes??
and then like 20 minutes ago I swear I literally just watched my phone fly off the book shelf. I put it on there to do something and I literally watched it Fly Off. like yes I will be the first to admit it was balanced precariously on the edge but it didn’t hit the floor and bounce a few times to land where it did. the thing flew. gotta say I don’t love that!!!
HEY GUYS SO MY MOM WAS SITTING IN HER ROOM AND A RING ON HER NIGHTSTAND JUST STOOD UP ON IT’S SIDE BY ITSELF???
She doesn’t wanna touch it, so it’s still like that, and I WILL say I’m sure it’s just resting on the necklace chain and isn’t being supernaturally held in place. But you can see all the dust!!!! She didn’t set it up like that!!! What the fuck!!!
I was just napping and my mom woke me up. She had just walked in the door and clear as day heard me say “hello!” from the living room, and she started talking to me, but as she came more into the apartment she realized I wasn’t even there (bc I was sleeping in my bed).
my mom and her friend are claiming they saw smoke come out of an unlit cigarette??? don’t know if that counts but idk what would cause it so I’m adding it to the list lmao
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