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