Reuben Binns⁉️I was invited by #Meta via a third party to join a roundtable about #AI fairness. There was a generous honorarium. They were asking me to sign an NDA. I said I wouldn't do it unless I could publicly declare my participation, the $ involved, and continue to criticise Meta based on public info. They ghosted me ...
ana vldv@RDBinns Thanks for your integrity, Reuben!
2¢@RDBinns not so generous, eh?
Anti Faisisteach Saebhiar
🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥@RDBinns
🥥 And THIS ^^^ toot is why I now follow you professor Binns! 🥥
🥥 And THIS ^^^ toot is why I now follow you professor Binns! 🥥
Itzme2@RDBinns uh oh. Thanks
wraptile@RDBinns I like how they want free value and not contribute anything back. True leeches
Chris Real@RDBinns ". . . oh, that's just the standard agreement, everybody does it, it's no big thing . . ."
But it WAS a big thing.
I was once asked to sign a Loyalty Oath to get a janitor's job in—Athens, Georgia, in the 'enlightened' '80s.
The above rationalization was what everybody said to me. (No, I didn't finish applying . . .)
Xymon@RDBinns that’s terrible. 🤔
How does one get on such a list to call, I wonder
(For internal sabotage purposes only) 😇
How does one get on such a list to call, I wonder
(For internal sabotage purposes only) 😇
Walker
The DJ Mr P@RDBinns I'm always amazed that companies want experts to help them then attach strings. Used to get that all the time as an industry analyst.
kira :3@RDBinns "we want opinions on AI fairness, but only from people who agree to tell us things we want to hear after we pay them a bunch" is very facebook of them, lmao
@RDBinns as an aside it's good that you put this out there because now there is a record to reflect on when they inevitably need to excuse themselves with something to the effect of "well we ran our ideas past a panel of experts, and"
Pusher Of Pixels (old account)@RDBinns having never been in that situation...you could publish the unsigned NDA agreement as well right? Assuming it got that far. But that would seem a useful way to claw out some info about it at least.
Sort of like asking a reporter to go off the record. The question itself isn't off the record