#Resist #AIslop #botshit

#Retrolanguage now confirmed by a report out of The Guardian, too. Still looking for first reports of linguistic competency loss (not cognitive offloading, actual flattening of thought>word translation) but likely no one paying for that let alone double blind.

History will not be kind, IMO.🪔

We going to wind up slow walking whether we come to it through wisdom or folly. Ethics is not a grass root, it is a cornerstone and they left it out on purpose.

I'm not sure enough of what passes for leadership remains to fight for the future. They all seem rather infected with a lethal combo of nihilism and fatalism.

I no longer expect the courts to help, sadly.

Does your paper present a solve? Is there a pre-print?

Thanks a lot for sharing! (Btw, can I refer to this paper and cite you in the presentation for quotes and paraphrasing?)

Professor Bender,

I read your prepublication article with great interest. One thought it stirred for me is that the harms of the “AI” frame may be strengthened by the older “arms race” frame.

I was at Harvey Mudd when Edward Teller visited and argued, somewhat surprisingly, that excessive secrecy had damaged American science. His view was that classified work drove away some of the best researchers, slowed open correction, and still failed to prevent leakage.

That seems relevant to AI now. “Arms race” language does not merely describe policy. It changes who participates, what work becomes respectable, where accountability goes, and which institutions accumulate power.

My own experience across early Internet development, classified systems work, venture-funded technology, and institutional exclusion has made me increasingly suspicious of any technical framing that hides labor, concentrates authority, or prevents open critique.

Your article gave me a sharper vocabulary for that concern.

Terri Gilbert

(You would really think the word "Contents" would convey to people that the words in the image are not the entirety of what you wrote, but alas)

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116885370631333741

How can I respond to your article without appearing to "mansplain"? (FWIW, I've been adjacent to the "AI" R&D field for decades, and have worked on several attempts to product-ize research prototypes, in machine learning, natural languages processing, deductive databases; but I'm far from being an expert in any of these (although I've worked with experts), let alone something as general as "AI", and my non-expertise will no doubt be indistinguishable from "mansplaining".)

That is, if you wish to have a conversation with a semi-expert.

Thanks for sharing here!