#emily-bender — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116098129762953036

Professor Emily M. Bender's replies are always so on point—huge recommendation if you want to know about the problems with #AI

#noAI #artificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #genAI #ChatBots #vibeCoding #TheAICon #ComputationalLinguistics #AgentsOfTech #DataWorkers #AI2027 #AGI #artificialGeneralIntelligence #GeoffreyHinton #AIReasoning #NeuralNetworks #EmilyBender #ReinforcementLearning #AIHype

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116098129762953036

Professor Emily M. Bender's replies are always so on point—huge recommendation if you want to know about the problems with #AI

#noAI #artificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #genAI #ChatBots #vibeCoding #TheAICon #ComputationalLinguistics #AgentsOfTech #DataWorkers #AI2027 #AGI #artificialGeneralIntelligence #GeoffreyHinton #AIReasoning #NeuralNetworks #EmilyBender #ReinforcementLearning #AIHype

@AwetTesfaiesus Das tut mir leid! Es wäre sehr schade, wenn die #mansplaining "Erklärbären" unser Netzwerk ärmer machen, indem sie Menschen daraus vergraulen. Bei der großartigen #EmilyBender sah das kürzlich fast so aus:
https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/115833119822086661
Ich fürchte stumm schalten / blocken ist manchmal die einzig sinnvolle Option.

@AwetTesfaiesus Das tut mir leid! Es wäre sehr schade, wenn die #mansplaining "Erklärbären" unser Netzwerk ärmer machen, indem sie Menschen daraus vergraulen. Bei der großartigen #EmilyBender sah das kürzlich fast so aus:
https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/115833119822086661
Ich fürchte stumm schalten / blocken ist manchmal die einzig sinnvolle Option.

“Few have done more to peel away the layers of #AI #hype that pervade the headlines and punditry than linguist #EmilyBender and sociologist #AlexHanna.” #BookSky #books open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...

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“Few have done more to peel away the layers of #AI #hype that pervade the headlines and punditry than linguist #EmilyBender and sociologist #AlexHanna.” #BookSky #books open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...

The best books, films and TV t...

“We can’t delegate #science to #machines, because science isn’t a collection of answers. It’s a set of processes and ways of knowing.” - #EmilyBender and #AlexHanna, #TheAICon: How to Fight Big Tech’s #Hype and Create the #Future We Want.

“We can’t delegate #science to #machines, because science isn’t a collection of answers. It’s a set of processes and ways of knowing.” - #EmilyBender and #AlexHanna, #TheAICon: How to Fight Big Tech’s #Hype and Create the #Future We Want.

Is the growth of LLMs like the growth of plastic?

From Emily Bender here:

I’ve found myself frequently using the analogy of plastic: To try to live without using plastic now (at least in the US) is an extremely expensive endeavor, both in terms of money and and in terms of time. Plastic is so deeply integrated into so many of our systems that it is very difficult to avoid. But we are at a moment with “AI” where things aren’t so deeply integrated, though corporate interests are pushing for them to be. So I believe that every act of refusal is especially powerful and meaningful now, and we would do well to avail ourselves of that power as we can.

#capitalism #diffusion #EmilyBender #LLMCriticism #LLMs #plastic

"synthetic text extruding machines" Love it.

#LLMs #llmstxt #emilybender

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/114987968565740315

Financial Times: AI sceptic Emily Bender: ‘The emperor has no clothes’. “Before Emily Bender and I have looked at a menu, she has dismissed artificial intelligence chatbots as ‘plagiarism machines’ and ‘synthetic text extruders’. Soon after the food arrives, the professor of linguistics adds that the vaunted large language models (LLMs) that underpin them are ‘born shitty’.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/22/ai-sceptic-emily-bender-the-emperor-has-no-clothes-financial-times/

Striking contrast between the attitude toward parroting in current AI debates (#EmilyBender, #TimnitGebru et al.) and that of Lawrence #Lessig in relation to Creative Commons.

For Bender & co., parroting signals a lack of creativity and understanding:

‘an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms
it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic
information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot.'

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

For Lessig, it’s a core feature of creative productivity. Writing about how, from Buster Keaton’s ‘Steamboat Bill, we got Steamboat Willie, and from Steamboat Willie, we got Mickey Mouse, and from Mickey Mouse, the Disney Corporation’, Lessig notes how Walt Disney ‘was always parroting the feature length mainstream films’.

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mlr/vol65/iss1/1/

#digital #parrot
#tech #ai
#ArtificialIntelligence #disney #creativecommons #creativity

Striking contrast between the attitude toward parroting in current AI debates (#EmilyBender, #TimnitGebru et al.) and that of Lawrence #Lessig in relation to Creative Commons.

For Bender & co., parroting signals a lack of creativity and understanding:

‘an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms
it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic
information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot.'

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

For Lessig, it’s a core feature of creative productivity. Writing about how, from Buster Keaton’s ‘Steamboat Bill, we got Steamboat Willie, and from Steamboat Willie, we got Mickey Mouse, and from Mickey Mouse, the Disney Corporation’, Lessig notes how Walt Disney ‘was always parroting the feature length mainstream films’.

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mlr/vol65/iss1/1/

#digital #parrot
#tech #ai
#ArtificialIntelligence #disney #creativecommons #creativity

I still say that it's pretty much pointless to expect any "guardrails" on #AI technology to be of any use. There's always going to be someone in the world who doesn't abide by them, and if they're on the internet, their content can spread everywhere. Still, this article is worth reading. #TedChiang #EmilyBender https://www.geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-bender-wishful-thinking

"I think we need transparency about training data. I think we need transparency about energy use. And on top of that, I would love to see accountability. I would love to live in a world where OpenAI is actually responsible for everything that ChatGPT outputs."

- Emily Bender

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-bender-wishful-thinking/

Frankly I'd be happy if ANY software was held legally responsible for it's output, but whatever.

#computationallinguistics #ai #emilybender #tedchiang

"I think we need transparency about training data. I think we need transparency about energy use. And on top of that, I would love to see accountability. I would love to live in a world where OpenAI is actually responsible for everything that ChatGPT outputs."

- Emily Bender

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-bender-wishful-thinking/

Frankly I'd be happy if ANY software was held legally responsible for it's output, but whatever.

#computationallinguistics #ai #emilybender #tedchiang

@synthphaser

I read that:

1. This isn't Jack Dorsey's show
2. The ceo is a crypto grifter

However, the Cultists of #TESCREAL do very well amongst rich people because it tells them what they want to hear and, of course, these are 2nd wave eugenics movements. Scratch a crypto currency bro, find a Nazi.

See #DAIR, #TimnitGebru #EmilyBender as well for more info because it's WILD but unfortunately verifiable.

@synthphaser

I read that:

1. This isn't Jack Dorsey's show
2. The ceo is a crypto grifter

However, the Cultists of #TESCREAL do very well amongst rich people because it tells them what they want to hear and, of course, these are 2nd wave eugenics movements. Scratch a crypto currency bro, find a Nazi.

See #DAIR, #TimnitGebru #EmilyBender as well for more info because it's WILD but unfortunately verifiable.

@emilymbender

Thank you for this 7 post thread on

#AGI #AIHype #AISafety #EthicsInAI #LLM #AISEO #AIPause #StochasticParrots #EmilyBender

@emilymbender

Thank you for this 7 post thread on

#AGI #AIHype #AISafety #EthicsInAI #LLM #AISEO #AIPause #StochasticParrots #EmilyBender

@timbray

I personally would put tags like #AI #SyntheticMedia #ChatGPT #TimnitGebru #EmilyBender etc on this but I don't really know a lot about AI, I just know a very small amount about spreading information on Mastodon. 😀

But that's some quality work there and a most pleasing and excellent phrase.

@timnitGebru @emilymbender @meg

@timbray

I personally would put tags like #AI #SyntheticMedia #ChatGPT #TimnitGebru #EmilyBender etc on this but I don't really know a lot about AI, I just know a very small amount about spreading information on Mastodon. 😀

But that's some quality work there and a most pleasing and excellent phrase.

@timnitGebru @emilymbender @meg

Fearing “loss of control,” AI critics call for 6-month pause in AI development - Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a globe that has stopped spinning. (... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1927560 #futueoflifeinstitute #machinelearning #emilybender #elonmusk #biz⁢ #openai #gpt-4 #ai

Fearing “loss of control,” AI critics call for 6-month pause in AI development - Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a globe that has stopped spinning. (... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1927560 #futueoflifeinstitute #machinelearning #emilybender #elonmusk #biz⁢ #openai #gpt-4 #ai

Ars Technica: Fearing “loss of control,” AI critics call for 6-month pause in AI development https://arstechnica.com/?p=1927560 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #FutueofLifeInstitute #machinelearning #EmilyBender #ElonMusk #Biz&IT #openai #GPT-4 #AI

"We've learned to make 'machines that can mindlessly generate text,' @emilymbender told me when we met this winter. 'But we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it.'" #linguistics #AI #EmilyBender https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html