As can be seen above, current team members state that Google is running a smear campaign against both of them. We should emphatically not take Google's words at face value here either.
I don’t get this. Google’s words are that she exfiltrated company documents. She either did or didn’t do this. And is google going to risk making this into a much bigger story by committing libel against a former employee?
Or should AI ethics researchers be empowered to steal corporate documents?
I try to maintain an open mind, but things seem almost straightforward in this case.