Super frustrated with all the cheerleading over chatbots for search, so here's a thread of presentations of my work with Chirag Shah on why this is a bad idea. Follow threaded replies for:

op-ed
media coverage
original paper
conference presentation

Please boost whichever (if any) speak to you.

"...Elon Musk issued an edict to the journalism community. Obey me ... or you will be banned from posting on #Twitter."

"This should have been a pivotal moment in media history — an inflection point when journalists realized how dangerous it is to put their fates in the hands of people who claim to revere free speech but use their power to control it...thanks to a combination of journalistic cowardice, inertia and calculation, business as usual prevailed." --@dangillmor
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journalists-and-others-should-leave-twitter-heres-how-they-can-get-started/

Depressing that it was 5 years ago we wrote Gendershades (http://gendershades.org/) showing disparities & write:

"an error in the output of a face recognition algorithm used as input for other tasks can have serious consequences. For example, someone could
be wrongfully accused of a crime based on erroneous but confident misidentification of the perpetrator from security video footage analysis."

And here we are. And this is not the first case, nor will it be the last.

https://peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/facial-recognition-tech-used-to-jail-black-man-for-louisiana-theft-hes-never-been-to-louisiana/

Employers are finding people are more likely to take PTO and not work on weekends. They are labeling this behavior less ambitious. This is quiet quitting redux.

COVID taught us there’s more to life than working hard for companies that don’t care about us.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-coworkers-are-less-ambitious-bosses-adjust-to-the-new-order-11672441067