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New from me: nearly 4,000 words on AI, the people who use it, the people who criticize it, the limitations of mainstream online platforms as vehicles for public discourse, and much more.
https://read-only.net/posts/2025-12-02-What%20Others%20Have%20Seen.html
#Blog #Blogging #WritingCommunity #Writing #amWriting #AI #LLM #LLMs #OpenAI #ChatGPT #YouTube #tech #technology
New from me: nearly 4,000 words on AI, the people who use it, the people who criticize it, the limitations of mainstream online platforms as vehicles for public discourse, and much more.
https://read-only.net/posts/2025-12-02-What%20Others%20Have%20Seen.html
#Blog #Blogging #WritingCommunity #Writing #amWriting #AI #LLM #LLMs #OpenAI #ChatGPT #YouTube #tech #technology
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
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What makes something data? Some thoughts on that question, and how answers to it help us understand AI hype:
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/what-makes-something-data-f6d9f498f312
RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/115644682531551467
"Big data in computational linguistics
"This off-loading of the concerns of dataset construction to a different group of researchers and culture of disdain for data and those who get their hands dirty with it partly set the conditions, I believe, for work on language technology to come unmoored from scientific foundations." --Emily M. Bender
"Louder for those in the back contemplating their navel fuzz with #ChatGPT." --Me
What makes something data? Some thoughts on that question, and how answers to it help us understand AI hype:
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/what-makes-something-data-f6d9f498f312
RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/115644682531551467
"Big data in computational linguistics
"This off-loading of the concerns of dataset construction to a different group of researchers and culture of disdain for data and those who get their hands dirty with it partly set the conditions, I believe, for work on language technology to come unmoored from scientific foundations." --Emily M. Bender
"Louder for those in the back contemplating their navel fuzz with #ChatGPT." --Me