Nol Malone ☭Aug 20, 2025
I'm genuinely curious what you think about current AI/LLM. I see a lot of justified frustration towards AI, but I don't often see the details of people's thoughts on the matter of AI generally. Shares would be appreciated, and I'd love to know if you have thoughts beyond the four options (polls are limited) ❤️
AI research should be abandoned entirely.
17.1%
CURRENT AI is unethical. More research is needed.
51.2%
Current AI can be used ethically in some cases.
17.8%
Problems with AI are the same as any new tech.
14%
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Show threadliaAug 20, 2025

@anolandria

Hey, I work in LLM research (computational linguistics).

People should understand that us researchers are not the ones marketing the technology as replacements for workers, let alone artists, or as search engines, friends, therapists, or other tools they are not.

Often enough, we are the ones who know enough about it to understand why current trends are wrong or dangerous.

One of the most outspoken anti-AI-hype activists is Emily Bender ( @emilymbender ), a computational linguist who is working in the field herself.

Research is not the enemy. The technology isn't, either. It's the marketers, the venture capitalists, the investors, the managers, the grifters.

Show threadJohn DetersAug 21, 2025

@lianna @anolandria @emilymbender It's being weaponized against people today. It should be pulled out of the workplace, out of generating porn of victim photos, deepfakes of anyone, and should be stopped from drinking half the fresh water in a desert and eating multiple power plants worth of energy.

Literally the only valid use cases today are in providing assistance for the disabled.

More research isn't what's needed now. More responsibility is. An unfathomable amount more.

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@targetdrone @anolandria @emilymbender Cameras should not be banned because upskirting exists. The GPS network should not be abolished because stalkers can use it to track their victims. The internet should not be shut down because it makes it easier for propaganda to spread.

Your enemy is not technology, it is the people abusing it. The office worker letting ChatGPT write a generic status report e-mail to her supervisor because she struggles with formal writing is not your enemy.

If you think "research" is a straight translation for "people improving the technology's capabilities", you're wrong. AI research includes ethics, linguistics, sociology. If you want more "responsibility" for AI misuse, that requires research. Or do you want governments to ban things without concrete data? Where do you think the data for machine learning misuse comes from if not from research?

Aug 21, 2025 at 5:05amWeb