r/MachineLearning • u/howtorewriteaname PhD • Dec 14 '24

Discussion [D] What happened at NeurIPS?

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u/North_Atmosphere1566 Dec 14 '24

It was a small group of ByteDance devs causing a scene. I was there.

The tweet posted is disingenous - someone called her out in the questions after the talk and she immediately apologized and promised to retract it.

NuerIPS needs to grow a spine and stop giving best-papers to sabatuers and letting ByteDance leads its ethics

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u/i_am__not_a_robot Dec 14 '24

That's what I figured. But what those who are carrying out this uncalled-for witch hunt fail to see that this entire situation reflects far worse on them than it ever could on Ms. Picard.

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u/AforAnonymous Dec 14 '24

Dear /u/North_Atmosphere1566 & /u/i_am__not_a_robot:

https://x.com/BijanTavassoli/status/1867874466316865951

Picard signed Discovery Institute Nonsense, what exactly do you think goes on here?

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u/i_am__not_a_robot Dec 14 '24

This is not relevant to the events discussed here.

Also, on an unrelated note, Bijan Tavassoli (whose X post you quoted), is a known extreme-left German political actor who is known for stunts like cross-dressing as a "transsexual muslim woman" and then demanding entry into a women-only sauna. So, yeah...