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Shared emphasis Generative AI Is Not Our Peer Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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AI displacing peer review

Generative AI Is Not Our Peer

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Emily M. Bender dell cameron CJ John Warner
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“"I understand that there have been some experiments showing that LLM review may have similar outcomes to human peer review, but who cares? Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu…”

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Emily M. Bender: "I understand that there have been some experiments showing that LLM review may have similar outcomes to human peer review, but who cares? Either scholarship, research and publishing are human ente…
Emily M. Bender: Exactly! No matter what you are claiming to measure, the results can't be meaningful if they are based on a false frame. The claim that peer review can be automated is a false frame. And unfortunat…
Emily M. Bender: In general, I really like the article linked at the top of the thread, though the author kept going out of his way to say he's not a genAI/LLM "refuser". Whyever not? And why protest so much? >>
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Established AI field signal Signal 12d ago

Ai chatgpt medication epilepsy death

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Emily M. Bender Lucy Li Alex Hanna Kashmir Hill Sarah T Roberts, PhD Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) +5

“This whole story is infurating, but this first quote from someone at OpenAI is really making me see red. "The newer version won't do this": a) why the fuck should we believe you and b) even if so, that has fuck-all to do with OpenAI's culpability here. www.…”

“I spent most of last year covering ChatGPT-4o's unsettling effects on some users. OpenAI pulled it off the market in February. @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social writes about a software engineer who died in Feb who had been using 4o to help her go off her epileps…”

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Emily M. Bender: This whole story is infurating, but this first quote from someone at OpenAI is really making me see red. "The newer version won't do this": a) why the fuck should we believe you and b) even if so, …
Emily M. Bender: And this is just astonishing --- your chatbot killed someone who was using it for medical advice and you want to say that's still a good use case?
Luke Stark: This whole story is infurating, but this first quote from someone at OpenAI is really making me see red. "The newer version won't do this": a) why the fuck should we believe you and b) even if so, …
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4 experts · 33 posts · 14d ago
Shannon Vallor Matthew Kirschenbaum ae John Warner
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Matthew Kirschenbaum: Based on the NYT, which (afaik) is all we have to go on, Mayer “felt overwhelmed by the range and complexity of potential answers.” You can make of this what you will, including that it is disingen…
ae: it also just sounds like -- surprise -- someone used AI on a homework assignment. which it was, for the parent. i am not really sure the prompt is really as innocent in context as it appears in the…
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3 experts · 31 posts · 16d ago
Emily M. Bender Anthony Moser John Warner
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Anthony Moser: "ai" discourse exploits our social patterns. we don't owe polite consideration to people who are rudely barging into every private space at once you don't need to grant the premise that it's good f…
Anthony Moser: at this point anyone claiming "ai" is in any way good or worthwhile needs to define what they mean and make an affirmative argument for it make people defend what they believe. and if you don't bel…
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