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  1. @iandunt.bsky.social You're not thinking, and, therefore, mistaken. We all experience that our brain sharpens when we exercise it, dulls when we don't use it. Just like, in fact, our muscles, and for the same reason: the body directs resource -- blood flow and nutrition -- to those organs that are using it.

    If you offload your thinking to a machine, of course you will get stupider.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

  2. @iandunt.bsky.social You're not thinking, and, therefore, mistaken. We all experience that our brain sharpens when we exercise it, dulls when we don't use it. Just like, in fact, our muscles, and for the same reason: the body directs resource -- blood flow and nutrition -- to those organs that are using it.

    If you offload your thinking to a machine, of course you will get stupider.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

  3. @iandunt.bsky.social You're not thinking, and, therefore, mistaken. We all experience that our brain sharpens when we exercise it, dulls when we don't use it. Just like, in fact, our muscles, and for the same reason: the body directs resource -- blood flow and nutrition -- to those organs that are using it.

    If you offload your thinking to a machine, of course you will get stupider.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

  4. @iandunt.bsky.social You're not thinking, and, therefore, mistaken. We all experience that our brain sharpens when we exercise it, dulls when we don't use it. Just like, in fact, our muscles, and for the same reason: the body directs resource -- blood flow and nutrition -- to those organs that are using it.

    If you offload your thinking to a machine, of course you will get stupider.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

  5. @iandunt.bsky.social You're not thinking, and, therefore, mistaken. We all experience that our brain sharpens when we exercise it, dulls when we don't use it. Just like, in fact, our muscles, and for the same reason: the body directs resource -- blood flow and nutrition -- to those organs that are using it.

    If you offload your thinking to a machine, of course you will get stupider.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

  6. By design, it only takes a little prompting to hijack the biggest chatBots:

    • Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions.
    • These exploits worked across nearly all major LLMs revealing an industry-wide security problem.
    • Kuszmar calls for slowing deployment, increasing transparency, and large-scale research into LLM safety before further integrating these systems into society.

    spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreaking

    #publicSafety #safety #LLM #privacy #hacking #stochasticParrots #chatBots

  7. By design, it only takes a little prompting to hijack the biggest chatBots:

    • Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions.
    • These exploits worked across nearly all major LLMs revealing an industry-wide security problem.
    • Kuszmar calls for slowing deployment, increasing transparency, and large-scale research into LLM safety before further integrating these systems into society.

    spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreaking

    #publicSafety #safety #LLM #privacy #hacking #stochasticParrots #chatBots

  8. By design, it only takes a little prompting to hijack the biggest chatBots:

    • Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions.
    • These exploits worked across nearly all major LLMs revealing an industry-wide security problem.
    • Kuszmar calls for slowing deployment, increasing transparency, and large-scale research into LLM safety before further integrating these systems into society.

    spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreaking

  9. By design, it only takes a little prompting to hijack the biggest chatBots:

    • Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions.
    • These exploits worked across nearly all major LLMs revealing an industry-wide security problem.
    • Kuszmar calls for slowing deployment, increasing transparency, and large-scale research into LLM safety before further integrating these systems into society.

    spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreaking

    #publicSafety #safety #LLM #privacy #hacking #stochasticParrots #chatBots

  10. By design, it only takes a little prompting to hijack the biggest chatBots:

    • Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions.
    • These exploits worked across nearly all major LLMs revealing an industry-wide security problem.
    • Kuszmar calls for slowing deployment, increasing transparency, and large-scale research into LLM safety before further integrating these systems into society.

    spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreaking

    #publicSafety #safety #LLM #privacy #hacking #stochasticParrots #chatBots

  11. Yay! My essay on the impacts of Large Language Model (#LLM) #AI in #archaeology was just published:

    doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.15

    It looks at #bots and mass scraping on the infrastructure supporting #opendata and #openaccess. It also looks at the incentives that encourage the mass-production of #bullshit that may lead to #modelcollapse but more likely less dramatic and more dreary outcomes.

    Enjoy!
    #stochasticparrots #digitalhumanities #openscience

  12. Yay! My essay on the impacts of Large Language Model (#LLM) #AI in #archaeology was just published:

    doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.15

    It looks at #bots and mass scraping on the infrastructure supporting #opendata and #openaccess. It also looks at the incentives that encourage the mass-production of #bullshit that may lead to #modelcollapse but more likely less dramatic and more dreary outcomes.

    Enjoy!
    #stochasticparrots #digitalhumanities #openscience

  13. Yay! My essay on the impacts of Large Language Model (#LLM) #AI in #archaeology was just published:

    doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.15

    It looks at #bots and mass scraping on the infrastructure supporting #opendata and #openaccess. It also looks at the incentives that encourage the mass-production of #bullshit that may lead to #modelcollapse but more likely less dramatic and more dreary outcomes.

    Enjoy!
    #stochasticparrots #digitalhumanities #openscience

  14. Yay! My essay on the impacts of Large Language Model (#LLM) #AI in #archaeology was just published:

    doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.15

    It looks at #bots and mass scraping on the infrastructure supporting #opendata and #openaccess. It also looks at the incentives that encourage the mass-production of #bullshit that may lead to #modelcollapse but more likely less dramatic and more dreary outcomes.

    Enjoy!
    #stochasticparrots #digitalhumanities #openscience

  15. @isomoth @kimcrawley #LLMs never hallucinate. They never lie. They never tell the truth. To do any of these things, you need to understand the meaning of language, and they do not. They produce statistically probable sequences of tokens. That is literally all they can ever do.

    Attributing meaning to their output is a category error.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

    journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu

  16. @isomoth @kimcrawley #LLMs never hallucinate. They never lie. They never tell the truth. To do any of these things, you need to understand the meaning of language, and they do not. They produce statistically probable sequences of tokens. That is literally all they can ever do.

    Attributing meaning to their output is a category error.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

    journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu

  17. @isomoth @kimcrawley #LLMs never hallucinate. They never lie. They never tell the truth. To do any of these things, you need to understand the meaning of language, and they do not. They produce statistically probable sequences of tokens. That is literally all they can ever do.

    Attributing meaning to their output is a category error.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

    journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu

  18. @isomoth @kimcrawley #LLMs never hallucinate. They never lie. They never tell the truth. To do any of these things, you need to understand the meaning of language, and they do not. They produce statistically probable sequences of tokens. That is literally all they can ever do.

    Attributing meaning to their output is a category error.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

    journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu

  19. @isomoth @kimcrawley #LLMs never hallucinate. They never lie. They never tell the truth. To do any of these things, you need to understand the meaning of language, and they do not. They produce statistically probable sequences of tokens. That is literally all they can ever do.

    Attributing meaning to their output is a category error.

    #GenAI
    #StochasticParrots

    journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu

  20. What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms

  21. What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms

  22. What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms

  23. What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms

  24. What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms

  25. "Let me first jump to the claim that’s most painful for me, speaking as a technologist and as an author on the Stochastic Parrots 🦜 paper: No, “Artificial Intelligence” is not a stochastic parrot. Large language models (LLMs) are. And large language models can be extremely useful."

    medium.com/@margarmitchell/no-

  26. "Let me first jump to the claim that’s most painful for me, speaking as a technologist and as an author on the Stochastic Parrots 🦜 paper: No, “Artificial Intelligence” is not a stochastic parrot. Large language models (LLMs) are. And large language models can be extremely useful."

    medium.com/@margarmitchell/no-

    #StochasticParrots #AI #LLM

  27. "Let me first jump to the claim that’s most painful for me, speaking as a technologist and as an author on the Stochastic Parrots 🦜 paper: No, “Artificial Intelligence” is not a stochastic parrot. Large language models (LLMs) are. And large language models can be extremely useful."

    medium.com/@margarmitchell/no-

    #StochasticParrots #AI #LLM

  28. "Let me first jump to the claim that’s most painful for me, speaking as a technologist and as an author on the Stochastic Parrots 🦜 paper: No, “Artificial Intelligence” is not a stochastic parrot. Large language models (LLMs) are. And large language models can be extremely useful."

    medium.com/@margarmitchell/no-

    #StochasticParrots #AI #LLM

  29. "Let me first jump to the claim that’s most painful for me, speaking as a technologist and as an author on the Stochastic Parrots 🦜 paper: No, “Artificial Intelligence” is not a stochastic parrot. Large language models (LLMs) are. And large language models can be extremely useful."

    medium.com/@margarmitchell/no-

    #StochasticParrots #AI #LLM

  30. I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/34

    I was surprised to learn:
    1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
    2. There is an emoji in the title
    3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell

    #StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI

  31. I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/34

    I was surprised to learn:
    1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
    2. There is an emoji in the title
    3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell

    #StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI

  32. I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/34

    I was surprised to learn:
    1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
    2. There is an emoji in the title
    3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell

    #StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI

  33. I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/34

    I was surprised to learn:
    1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
    2. There is an emoji in the title
    3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell

    #StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI

  34. I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/34

    I was surprised to learn:
    1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
    2. There is an emoji in the title
    3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell

    #StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI

  35. #Google fired her for refusing to retract it in 2020. The firing itself proved the point she was making. The people who pay for the system can't afford to hear what's wrong with it. Every warning from Timnit Gebru's "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" has now come true. At scale. Hallucinations, bias amplification, environmental cost, un-auditable training data, model collapse.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #stochasticparrots #aiethics #responsibleai #aicon #aihype

  36. #Google fired her for refusing to retract it in 2020. The firing itself proved the point she was making. The people who pay for the system can't afford to hear what's wrong with it. Every warning from Timnit Gebru's "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" has now come true. At scale. Hallucinations, bias amplification, environmental cost, un-auditable training data, model collapse.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #stochasticparrots #aiethics #responsibleai #aicon #aihype

  37. #Google fired her for refusing to retract it in 2020. The firing itself proved the point she was making. The people who pay for the system can't afford to hear what's wrong with it. Every warning from Timnit Gebru's "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" has now come true. At scale. Hallucinations, bias amplification, environmental cost, un-auditable training data, model collapse.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #stochasticparrots #aiethics #responsibleai #aicon #aihype

  38. #Google fired her for refusing to retract it in 2020. The firing itself proved the point she was making. The people who pay for the system can't afford to hear what's wrong with it. Every warning from Timnit Gebru's "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" has now come true. At scale. Hallucinations, bias amplification, environmental cost, un-auditable training data, model collapse.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #stochasticparrots #aiethics #responsibleai #aicon #aihype

  39. #Google fired her for refusing to retract it in 2020. The firing itself proved the point she was making. The people who pay for the system can't afford to hear what's wrong with it. Every warning from Timnit Gebru's "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" has now come true. At scale. Hallucinations, bias amplification, environmental cost, un-auditable training data, model collapse.

    tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepso

    #TimnitGebru #stochasticparrots #aiethics #responsibleai #aicon #aihype

  40. This Emily Bender post has my new favorite acronym:

    Frequently Unasked Questions = FUQ!

    OK, probably not new, but it was new to me! 😁

    medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    "What I am trying to do, in a world absolutely saturated with marketing selling the idea that the synthetic text extruding machines are 'AI', or maybe even 'AGI', is to help people understand what these systems actually are: systems designed to mimic the language … that people use."

    #AI #AIHype #LLMs #Chatbots #StochasticParrots

  41. This Emily Bender post has my new favorite acronym:

    Frequently Unasked Questions = FUQ!

    OK, probably not new, but it was new to me! 😁

    medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    "What I am trying to do, in a world absolutely saturated with marketing selling the idea that the synthetic text extruding machines are 'AI', or maybe even 'AGI', is to help people understand what these systems actually are: systems designed to mimic the language … that people use."

    #AI #AIHype #LLMs #Chatbots #StochasticParrots

  42. This Emily Bender post has my new favorite acronym:

    Frequently Unasked Questions = FUQ!

    OK, probably not new, but it was new to me! 😁

    medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    "What I am trying to do, in a world absolutely saturated with marketing selling the idea that the synthetic text extruding machines are 'AI', or maybe even 'AGI', is to help people understand what these systems actually are: systems designed to mimic the language … that people use."

    #AI #AIHype #LLMs #Chatbots #StochasticParrots

  43. This Emily Bender post has my new favorite acronym:

    Frequently Unasked Questions = FUQ!

    OK, probably not new, but it was new to me! 😁

    medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    "What I am trying to do, in a world absolutely saturated with marketing selling the idea that the synthetic text extruding machines are 'AI', or maybe even 'AGI', is to help people understand what these systems actually are: systems designed to mimic the language … that people use."

    #AI #AIHype #LLMs #Chatbots #StochasticParrots

  44. This Emily Bender post has my new favorite acronym:

    Frequently Unasked Questions = FUQ!

    OK, probably not new, but it was new to me! 😁

    medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    "What I am trying to do, in a world absolutely saturated with marketing selling the idea that the synthetic text extruding machines are 'AI', or maybe even 'AGI', is to help people understand what these systems actually are: systems designed to mimic the language … that people use."

    #AI #AIHype #LLMs #Chatbots #StochasticParrots

  45. @emilymbender Do you have a comment on @UlrikeHahn 's 2026 preprint [1] (I do know about your Frequently unasked questions [2])? Ulrike is giving us an online seminar on Monday (11:00 CEST coffee for locals, 11:15 actual seminar = 02:15 PDT) [3], in which you (and others) would be welcome to participate, of course.

    [1] zenodo.org/records/18231172

    [2] medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    [3] * codeberg.org/boud/ia-umk-semin
    * astro.umk.pl/en/institute/gene
    * bbb2.astro.uni.torun.pl/rooms/

    #LLMs #LLMReasoning #StochasticParrots

  46. @emilymbender Do you have a comment on @UlrikeHahn 's 2026 preprint [1] (I do know about your Frequently unasked questions [2])? Ulrike is giving us an online seminar on Monday (11:00 CEST coffee for locals, 11:15 actual seminar = 02:15 PDT) [3], in which you (and others) would be welcome to participate, of course.

    [1] zenodo.org/records/18231172

    [2] medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    [3] * codeberg.org/boud/ia-umk-semin
    * astro.umk.pl/en/institute/gene
    * bbb2.astro.uni.torun.pl/rooms/

    #LLMs #LLMReasoning #StochasticParrots

  47. @emilymbender Do you have a comment on @UlrikeHahn 's 2026 preprint [1] (I do know about your Frequently unasked questions [2])? Ulrike is giving us an online seminar on Monday (11:00 CEST coffee for locals, 11:15 actual seminar = 02:15 PDT) [3], in which you (and others) would be welcome to participate, of course.

    [1] zenodo.org/records/18231172

    [2] medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    [3] * codeberg.org/boud/ia-umk-semin
    * astro.umk.pl/en/institute/gene
    * bbb2.astro.uni.torun.pl/rooms/

    #LLMs #LLMReasoning #StochasticParrots

  48. @emilymbender Do you have a comment on @UlrikeHahn 's 2026 preprint [1] (I do know about your Frequently unasked questions [2])? Ulrike is giving us an online seminar on Monday (11:00 CEST coffee for locals, 11:15 actual seminar = 02:15 PDT) [3], in which you (and others) would be welcome to participate, of course.

    [1] zenodo.org/records/18231172

    [2] medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    [3] * codeberg.org/boud/ia-umk-semin
    * astro.umk.pl/en/institute/gene
    * bbb2.astro.uni.torun.pl/rooms/

    #LLMs #LLMReasoning #StochasticParrots

  49. @emilymbender Do you have a comment on @UlrikeHahn 's 2026 preprint [1] (I do know about your Frequently unasked questions [2])? Ulrike is giving us an online seminar on Monday (11:00 CEST coffee for locals, 11:15 actual seminar = 02:15 PDT) [3], in which you (and others) would be welcome to participate, of course.

    [1] zenodo.org/records/18231172

    [2] medium.com/@emilymenonbender/s

    [3] * codeberg.org/boud/ia-umk-semin
    * astro.umk.pl/en/institute/gene
    * bbb2.astro.uni.torun.pl/rooms/

    #LLMs #LLMReasoning #StochasticParrots