Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.

It's also about the people who are behind that hype, and about what their way of thinking has the potential to do to us.

It's worth reading all the way to the end.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

@ct_bergstrom @emilymbender "Your reality, sir, is nothing but lies and balderdash, and I am delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!" *scatters paperwork with sword* (in response to bald guy with lanyard, our walking, talking Age of Reason on two legs)