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Intelligenza artificiale, colonialismo digitale e il governo del desiderio

Antonio Desideri

> ... in the forum that followed The Chronicle’s labeling AI “a clear inflection point..” the only contributor.. to take the editors’ premise to task was #EmilyBender, the coauthor of.. #TheAICon... this #TechnologicalFad wasn’t “ a.. scientific breakthrough but rather the desperation of #TechCompanies. to recoup their massive investment in so-called AI.” By implication, university administrators (and presumably some higher education publications) have fallen for Silicon Valley’s misleading public-relations campaign hook, line, and sinker.
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Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET May 17

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

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Johannes Hartig Jan 15

@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.

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (@[email protected])

Once again feeling like it's almost not worth posting to Mastodon given the degree of mansplaining that everything I put up here attracts. Why is it so hard to read the whole thread and/or acknowledge with a 'yes and' -- or maybe check who you are replying to/posting at? Gah.

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Dec 22, 2025

“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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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Sep 18, 2025

“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.

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Sep 17, 2025

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.”

Mark Carrigan Sep 7, 2025

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

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Janet Fraser Aug 7, 2025

"synthetic text extruding machines" Love it.

#LLMs #llmstxt #emilybender

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

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14

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