@courtcan @david_chisnall I have @emilymbender and @Katecrawford 's respective books on my table right now. Fellow #FreeBSD and IP networking operative George Neville-Neil quoted in "Atlas of AI" on limitations. Emily Bender and Alex Hanna in The AI Con: "AI is a marketing term ... It doesn’t refer to a coherent set of technologies.” #GrandTheftautocomplete For the record I have no problem with LLMs. I do have a problem with rampant theft and pointless avarice. Has Gary Marcus gone soft today?

@davidgerard @emilymbender @timnitGebru @Dianora @pluralistic ...to fool them into personifying what are no more than machine learning algorithms (to paraphrase Cory Doctorow: "word guessing programs"). It is INFANTILE and it needs to STOP, just as the organisations which are doing this infantilise their own adult employees daily. They aren't pushing the limits of non-symbolic AI adoption. They are CREATING MENTAL ILLNESS TO FURTHER BUSINESS MODELS. #grandtheftautocomplete #genai

@davidgerard @emilymbender @timnitGebru @Dianora @pluralistic I am FED UP of people, who should know better, system prompting GPT-based generative AI systems to serve up predictive text to make them plausibly seem "conscious", presumably to game metrics, and gain the "engagement" of novice users of the technology who are not trained to spot these patterns (who are often not rooted in a computer science, cognitive science or psychology background) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcN1VTTIjQs #grandtheftautocomplete

@theinternetiscrack @emilymbender @timnitGebru As I said in a private email to someone earlier today: only a deluded fool personifies a GPT class bundle of machine learning algorithms. But unfortunately we are up against a massive campaign of corporate disinformation about the extractive use of #Genai in a way which is hostile to other humans, and not everyone is as equipped to spot the "serpent in Eden" of weaselly worded algorithmic output from nonsentient entities. #grandtheftautocomplete