Sorry for a longish post.

Thanks for sharing the relevant bits. Please don't forget to also read the counterpoints. See what Efros had to say for example.

On the "sick of this framing", that's not really a scientific argument of any kind. That's a state of mind, which caused everything to go downhill. I understand that it's a time of high stress, but in the interest of keeping things scientific and objective, that's not entirely productive to START from there.

Keep in mind that even if LeCun is 100% wrong in what he said (he isn't), this approach to a discussion is utterly counterproductive.

I am not a black researcher, but I do know multiple black researchers who have indeed suffered greatly in their life because of their background. However, they didn't suffer because Celeb-A. They suffered because of super-harsh conditions in Africa, they suffered because in the US some people called them abusive words and treated them badly, but they didn't suffer from Celeb-A bias. There ARE many ways in which ML bias has affected them (i.e., face recognition tech), but the work that was discussed here is not such an example.

I actually reached out to one such researcher them today (hi if you're reading this!) and asked him about what his opinion about this was and he found it hilarious (sample of one, I know) how in the US such a minor thing gets to explode so badly when in fact there are much worse problems to worry about when it comes to representation and inclusion (watched the news lately?).

I hope a the end of all this debacle Facebook will end up donating some money that could be used to incentivise more black students to make the transition to academia.