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Multiple readings No ai is not stochastic parrot a99e57766bed Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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No ai is not stochastic parrot a99e57766bed

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Brian Merchant
“But LLMs are, to this day, still well enough understood as stochastic parrots. It's an accurate description of the technology. Many AI models involve more than LLMs, as fellow co-author Margaret Mitchell pointed out, but it's *still* a useful critical frame…” evidence ↗
6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Margaret Mitchell Will Oremus Brian Merchant Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Meredith Rose
17 experts discussed this · 104 posts
Will Oremus: feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying…
Will Oremus: you can eschew anthropomorphizing language like "think" and "reason" and even "intelligence" but anyone who uses these tools regularly cannot fail to see that what they do is something more than ju…
Will Oremus: or if it is parroting, it's stretching the bounds of your conventional understanding of that term so far as to render it misleading. parrots cannot solve complex problems, self-interrogate and self…
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Established AI field signal Development 9d ago
police AI driving suspicion stops

Police Are Increasingly Pulling People Over Because AI Deems Their Driving Patterns “Suspicious” | ACLU

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Hypervisible
“I’d be worried if algorithms were biased or these systems routinely made mistakes or LE used them to harass people, or that society was increasingly authoritarian or that they were used to restrict bodily autonomy, but since those are speculative harms I gu…” evidence ↗
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Hypervisible Meredith Rose

“I’d be worried if algorithms were biased or these systems routinely made mistakes or LE used them to harass people, or that society was increasingly authoritarian or that they were used to restrict bodily autonomy, but since those are speculative harms I gu…”

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Hypervisible : I’d be worried if algorithms were biased or these systems routinely made mistakes or LE used them to harass people, or that society was increasingly authoritarian or that they were used to restrict…
Hypervisible : It’s why I am unapologetic in my stance and won’t be moved from it.
Jeffrey Vagle: An STS axiom I keep coming back to: Technologies bring with them the worldviews of their creators.
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5 experts · 22 posts · 14d ago
Sam Cole VE, cybersocial occult investigator Meredith Rose Max Woolf Amy Hoy
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“The corrolary to the object lesson that we should be afraid of idiots armed with snake oil, is that made-up things are absolutely real and can be a danger to us all” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Meredith Rose: This is what I need denialists to understand: the AI evangelists' wildest fever dreams (sentience, the singularity, whatever-the-fuck) don't need to be real for the tech to be hugely consequential.…
Meredith Rose: "it's all snake oil" ok well I hate to break it to you but idiots armed with large volumes of snake oil are currently taking down major cyber infrastructure
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3 experts · 25 posts · 14d ago
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) Meredith Rose Jed Brown
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“Here's the thing, though: it won't. The technology itself exists, it's open source, and it's widely distributed. What you can do is mitigate harms, which include things like responsible adoption (o…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE): Meredith is right here. Refusing to use the tech won’t make it go away, concerted opposition will. This shit won’t go away unless we make it go away.
Meredith Rose: Here's the thing, though: it won't. The technology itself exists, it's open source, and it's widely distributed. What you can do is mitigate harms, which include things like responsible adoption (o…
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