Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Ugh -- agreed to speak to a journalist about whether people (actually women in particular, because it's a women's magazine type publication) should use chatbots for health information. I said in no uncertain terms that they should not, but they found someone else to quote too saying it could be beneficial blah blah blah. And then the article ends with a quote from me saying "Don't do this" followed by a "quote" from ChatGPT --- i.e. more synthetic text published as news. Grr.
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Betweenthe glassy-eyed repetition of grandiose lies about the viability of AI for all the things these billionaire Tech Bros say it's viable for, and the thinly veiled animosity for projects like Mastodon in contrast with cash cows like Twitter, I'm finding the fact that the for-profit mainstream media is a major source of harmful misinformation in the modernized world to be on my mind more and more lately...