Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Apr 14, 2023

Okay, so are these 8 pages of motivated reasoning formatted like they've been submitted to Science or to Nature?

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-2724922/v1_covered.pdf?c=1680083818

Look, you can't count the carbon emissions that people have for (check notes) existing as the "carbon cost" of the work that they do.

I can't believe this needs to be said, but: LLMs are *optional*. Humans are not.

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@emilymbender Extremely weird article. I assume that the authors just didn't think this through at all, but the implication that we can or should *replace human populations with AI* is disturbing at best.
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@ouro @emilymbender It seems like playing down the value of humans and playing up the value of models has been a pattern for a while. The implications are a little unsettling.