Why do linguists seem to feel especially threatened by #AI? Some of the most vicious (and unwarranted) attacks I've seen on language models have come from those calling themselves "linguists."
Unless you're Noam Chomsky, what have linguists done for humanity lately? Perhaps instead of simply criticizing an algorithm's ability to mimic (part of) a human construct, analyze the (human-created) inputs that train those models and see just how much trash there is (irony, memes, listicles, etc.).