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Emily M. Bender

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When prompted about current events, chatgpt “repeatedly cited a sloppy scam news site that deluges the user with fake software updates and virus warnings.”

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This feels like a 2024 version of dreams about accidentally going to school naked...

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One for the syntax folk 🐦🐦

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾's avatar 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social
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AI the tool has technical issues and application avoidances that o find fascinating( AI’s regulatory possibilities are myriad but never proposed ) But AI the philosophy is what terrifies me It seeks truth without provenance and creativity with no viewpoint

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Charles Logan's avatar Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social
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"We can, however, be aware of what's happening, and push our elected officials for better climate policy—and know not to fall for Big Tech's promises."

To help with this work, I've been gathering articles/other media at Against AI and Its Environmental Harms: pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI...

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Emily M. Bender's avatar Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social
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I'm sorry to report that one of the articles (GPTs are GPTs) we discuss in this episode has been published in Science. I have tons of respect for AAAS but this is a huge miss. On the upside, if you'd like to be entertained for an hour about why, here you go:

w/@alexhanna.bsky.social

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Emily M. Bender's avatar Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 34: Senate Dot Roadmap Dot Final Dot No Really Dot Docx

... in which @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dive into Sen Schumer's AI report and are dismayed at what happens when our electeds listen to the hype.

Thanks to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production.

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imagine where "AI is biased/harmful/ineffective until it's proven otherwise" is the norm instead of the current hubris where excitement and faith at empty promises have become normal

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Emily M. Bender's avatar Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 34: Senate Dot Roadmap Dot Final Dot No Really Dot Docx

... in which @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dive into Sen Schumer's AI report and are dismayed at what happens when our electeds listen to the hype.

Thanks to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production.

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Next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live-stream!

@al2.bsky.social will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to take apart yet another paper-shaped AI hype artifact unleashed from a "top" industry lab (could that be the summit of bullshit mountain?):

Monday June 24
9:30am Pacific

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Emily M. Bender's avatar Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social
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Next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live-stream!

@al2.bsky.social will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to take apart yet another paper-shaped AI hype artifact unleashed from a "top" industry lab (could that be the summit of bullshit mountain?):

Monday June 24
9:30am Pacific

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Next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live-stream!

@ali@masto.al2.in will join me and @alex to take apart yet another paper-shaped AI hype artifact unleashed from a "top" industry lab (could that be the summit of bullshit mountain?):

Monday June 24
9:30am Pacific
www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)'s avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Noble's Algos of Oppression was 2018 & joined a living conversation, but we're still nowhere because a bunch of mostly white dudes w/ cartoon dollar signs where their critical thinking skills should be keep slathering themselves in LLM/GPT/"AI" & running down the street screaming "We Are The Future"

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Basically every person who thought about this for even 10 seconds warned google this was going to happen. Google's entire incentive structure is monetization-via-ranking-via-SEO-&-clicks. People are clicking "AI" porn, & people Making "AI" porn are manipulatively lying in their SEO to drive traffic

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Emily M. Bender's avatar Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social
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PSA: Every time you cite the arXiv version of something instead of the peer reviewed version, you're lending legitimacy to nonsense like this:

Source: arxiv.org/html/2404.07...

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PSA: Every time you cite the arXiv version of something instead of the peer reviewed version, you're lending legitimacy to nonsense like this:

Source: arxiv.org/html/2404.07...

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And the story about seeing a robot have a feeling back in 1972 ... I wonder if he really thought so back then too (has always been this far down the rabbit hole) or if that's some revisionist history about his own thoughts.

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That is so much nonsense. Also, is it really a new thing from this month? "Letter last week" sounds like 2023, but the date is June 12, 2024, so I'm super confused.

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“Sarah’s not allowed to discuss politics.” 💀

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Emily M. Bender's avatar Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social
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Setting aside the issue of whether "textualism" is a good idea, corpus linguistic methods based on an entirely unknown and undocumented corpus are unsound. And "asking ChatGPT" also isn't corpus methods.

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