Iris van Rooij 💭“AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism” — (@olivia Guest et al., 2025)
Full paper here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099
Ruud Steltenpool@Iris @olivia As I wasn't sure how to pronounce it; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija says (there also in audio): "The Ouija (/ˈwiːdʒə/ ⓘ WEE-jə, /-dʒi/ -jee), also known as a Ouija board, spirit board, talking board, or witch board"
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Karl Schwartz, Artist advocate
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Yes, and in addition it'd be good to read this thread and the associated links: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/113422515033543544 .
LLMs are quite poor for information retrieval.
Yes, and in addition it'd be good to read this thread and the associated links: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/113422515033543544 .
LLMs are quite poor for information retrieval.
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (@[email protected])
Why are LLMs bad for search? Because LLMs are nothing more than statistical models of the distribution of word forms in text, set up to output plausible-sounding sequences of words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpE40jwMilU >>
Stefanie Janine Stölting@abucci @olivia @lymphomation @Iris And @emilymbender and @alex have a very good podcast about AI https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
Michael Roberts@lymphomation @Iris comparison to fox is like saying my kitchen is clean because the sewer exists
Derek Martin