"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

[emilymbender@dair-community.social]

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

From Nanna Inie and me in Tech Policy Press on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language in the discourse about so-called "AI".

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

[androcat@toot.cat]

@emilymbender Thanks! This is absolutely wonderful.

Is there a list of resources for someone who might have opportunity to debate (ugh, such a sophomoric concept) how "AI" is being misleading?

I have received a "challenge", and would like to boost my arsenal a bit, just to be on the safe side (insurance against gotchas).

[demiurg@fosstodon.org]

@emilymbender Thank you for the article! I am afraid we are already at a level, where sycophancy and self-affirmation mechanisms are built in on purpose at the chat interfaces of LLMs. People get, by design choices, emotionally bound to the product. That is despicable and needs to be regulated.

[independentpen@mas.to]

@emilymbender I wish they'd proposed more examples of alternative language