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  1. @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:
    dair-community.social/@emilymb
    Ich fürchte stumm schalten / blocken ist manchmal die einzig sinnvolle Option.

  2. @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:
    dair-community.social/@emilymb
    Ich fürchte stumm schalten / blocken ist manchmal die einzig sinnvolle Option.

  3. @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:
    dair-community.social/@emilymb
    Ich fürchte stumm schalten / blocken ist manchmal die einzig sinnvolle Option.

  4. @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:
    dair-community.social/@emilymb
    Ich fürchte stumm schalten / blocken ist manchmal die einzig sinnvolle Option.

  5. @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:
    dair-community.social/@emilymb
    Ich fürchte stumm schalten / blocken ist manchmal die einzig sinnvolle Option.

  6. “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.

  7. “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.

  8. “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.

  9. “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.

  10. “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.

  11. Reading #TheAICon by #EmilyBender and #AlexHanna and I’m really enjoying their rhetorical technique of using the more accurate phrase “synthetic text extruding machines” to refer to #LLMs rather than loaded expression “AI.”

  12. Reading #TheAICon by #EmilyBender and #AlexHanna and I’m really enjoying their rhetorical technique of using the more accurate phrase “synthetic text extruding machines” to refer to #LLMs rather than loaded expression “AI.”

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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/

  18. 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/

  19. 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.'

    dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/344

    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’.

    scholarworks.umt.edu/mlr/vol65

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

  20. 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.'

    dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/344

    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’.

    scholarworks.umt.edu/mlr/vol65

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

  21. 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.'

    dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/344

    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’.

    scholarworks.umt.edu/mlr/vol65

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

  22. 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.'

    dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/344

    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’.

    scholarworks.umt.edu/mlr/vol65

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

  23. 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.'

    dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/344

    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’.

    scholarworks.umt.edu/mlr/vol65

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

  24. ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender (@emilymbender) nymag.com/intelligencer/articl

    “I feel like there’s too much effort trying to create autonomous machines,” Bender said, “rather than trying to create machines that are useful tools for humans.” #chatgpt #IA #LLM #EmilyBender #StochasticParrot

  25. ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender (@emilymbender) nymag.com/intelligencer/articl

    “I feel like there’s too much effort trying to create autonomous machines,” Bender said, “rather than trying to create machines that are useful tools for humans.” #chatgpt #IA #LLM #EmilyBender #StochasticParrot

  26. ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender (@emilymbender) nymag.com/intelligencer/articl

    “I feel like there’s too much effort trying to create autonomous machines,” Bender said, “rather than trying to create machines that are useful tools for humans.” #chatgpt #IA #LLM #EmilyBender #StochasticParrot

  27. 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 geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-be

  28. 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 geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-be

  29. 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 geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-be

  30. 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 geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-be

  31. 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 geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-be

  32. "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

    geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-be

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

    #computationallinguistics #ai #emilybender #tedchiang

  33. "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

    geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-be

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

    #computationallinguistics #ai #emilybender #tedchiang

  34. "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

    geekwire.com/2023/ai-chiang-be

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

    #computationallinguistics #ai #emilybender #tedchiang