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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) @emilymbender@dair-community.social
We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have thoughts or stances that they are trying to communicate. ChatGPT can't admit anything, nor self-report. Gah.
Yer typical schoolchild knows that water doesn't have a brain. Meanwhile, billion dollar companies are spending millions to sell snake-oil to other companies by promising them that a subscription to a jump-up chatbot can replace their employees, and all the language surrounding "AI" suggesting it has any cognitive abilities at all only makes the problem worse, and is literally putting professional workers jobs on the line.
But yes, your simile is super accurate. ๐