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"synthetic text extruding machines" Love it.

#LLMs #llmstxt #emilybender

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

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

@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

@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

> We’ve learned to make “machines that can mindlessly generate text,” Bender.. “But we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it.”.. #JosephWeizenbaum, who created #ELIZA, the first #chatbot, in 1966, spent most of the rest of his life regretting it.. he wrote ten years later in Computer Power and Human Reason.. that.. The toys are fun, enchanting, and addicting, and that, he believed even 47 years ago, will be our ruin:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
#EmilyMBender #EmilyBender