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Google poisoned the science cmty, which now amplifies its disinformation [video]

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This video debunks 4 dangerously misleading scientific papers, all with a Google co-author, that denigrate the urgent need for massive audits and investments in security and ethics. Terrifyingly, the scientific community has scientifically validated and massively propagated what appears to be intentional disinformation.

Script and sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MZinEbqdCyvssBWHsX2Qjrv9...

French researcher and youtuber Lê Nguyên Hoang tries in this video essay to demonstrate that the ML research community is plagued by unfounded claims of algorithms being privacy-preserving, and lack of accountability over ethical concerns. This video seems to be the continuation of papers co-authored by Lê:

SoK: On the Impossible Security of Very Large Foundation Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15259
An Equivalence Between Data Poisoning and Byzantine Gradient Attacks https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/farhadkhani22b.html
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