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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.
But most people won't be convinced to think that water has consciousness.
With AI there is enough ambiguity about what it's doing, for the common person at least. And it's in the company's best interest to make it seem as smart as possible, after all, so they won't correct that.
Just saying, there's some reasoning behind criticizing the language here beyond the factual
Tell that to homeopathy believers
Just don't stir the water and the wrong direction and it will somehow remember everything it wants to somehow tell you