Mastodawn

I just opted-out of Vercel's so-called-AI training and I advice you to do the same.
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Andrew Shields Sep 8, 2025

Text-extruders in my university courses. #111Words #EmilyMBender #AlexHanna #TheAICon #TextExtruders #Teaching #Students https://111-words.ghost.io/text-extruders-in-my-university-courses/

Text-extruders in my university courses

Following Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna's "The AI Con" (Bodley Head 2025), I call large language models "synthetic text extruding machines" rather than characterizing them as "artificial intelligence" (31). As Bender and Hanna make clear, such text-extruders have multiple problems, both in themselves and in their academic, social, economic,

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