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   Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 18:36:07 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her)

   "Meta’s misstep—and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. There is a large body of research that highlights the flaws of this technology, including its tendencies to reproduce prejudice and assert falsehoods as facts."
   https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science/

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     CartyBoston (cartyboston@mastodon.roundpond.net)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 18:36:05 JST CartyBoston

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     @timnitGebru Stephanie Arnett yay thanks

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     CartyBoston (cartyboston@mastodon.roundpond.net)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 18:36:06 JST CartyBoston

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     @timnitGebru shoutout please to the graphic artist at Technology Review who did the black bear cub in a spacesuit.

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     dealyllama (dealyllama@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 18:37:49 JST dealyllama

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     @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @emilymbender Holy crap - thanks for the info and your work in this area. Tons to digest here if I can manage it :)

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     Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 18:37:50 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her)

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     @dealyllama our stochastic parrots paper which @mmitchell_ai and I got fired for writing with @emilymbender, her student Angelina and our coauthors who had to take their names of the paper Ben, Vinod and Mark. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

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     dealyllama (dealyllama@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 18:37:51 JST dealyllama

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     @timnitGebru any good resources / papers on how societal bias is reflected in trained models? Seems like a semi-frightening mirror to look in to

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     Joel Webber (j15r@mastodon.j15r.com)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 18:39:44 JST Joel Webber

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     @timnitGebru It seems so unfortunate that, rather than using the opportunity provided by this work to explore the *limitations* of LLMs, the team chose to promote its use well beyond what it was capable of doing safely or reliably.

     It's "interesting" is no substitute for "useful and safe", and choosing to promote it for the latter undermines the former.

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     Dave Wilburn :donor: (davemwilburn@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 18:40:13 JST Dave Wilburn :donor:

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     @timnitGebru didn't we go through this before with SCIgen? Did they not realize that SCIgen was supposed to be a joke, not an instruction manual?

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