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   Meredith Whittaker (mer__edith@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 22:14:59 JST Meredith Whittaker

   I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM ceaselessly annoyed by the pattern

   This is not new or novel. It was women -
   @timnitGebru, @mmitchell_ai, me, et al - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against, pushed out for doing so.

   https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html

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     Meredith Whittaker (mer__edith@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 22:14:58 JST Meredith Whittaker

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     Where were these guys when we spent months + thousand$ on lawyers? Where were they when we were organizing to stop it before it reached this point? Where were they when Sundar lied about us & diminished the risks we demonstrated? I'm not interested in dissent without solidarity.

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     OnlyBrownMastodon (onlybrownmastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 09:05:55 JST OnlyBrownMastodon

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     @Mer__edith

     It doesn't look like either person you mentioned (TimnitGebru, mmitchell_ai) is linked in your post -- in case you wanted (or didn't want) them to see it.

     Edit: They've been un-linked here, in case the latter is the case (you didn't want to link them).

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     mmitchell_ai (mmitchell_ai@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 09:05:55 JST mmitchell_ai

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     • OnlyBrownMastodon

     @onlybrownmastodon I'm always open to being linked to by @Mer__edith !!

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     Meredith Whittaker (mer__edith@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 09:05:57 JST Meredith Whittaker

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     This isn’t about credit, this is about the fact that there was a moment to act together, when the power these Men of AI wield could have been used in solidarity with a movement that was gaining ground to stop the worst of AI. They didn’t use their power that way. And here we are.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 09:05:58 JST clacke

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     • Eva // Madeline // Winterschon
     > There's nothing to push back on yet.

     
     We don't need to wait for sentience or intelligence in machines, which may or may not arrive in some century or other.

     The existential risk for marginalized people when people in power abdicate responsibility for the consequences when they deploy machine solutions to replace human decision-making ... that's here today.

     @winterschon @Mer__edith

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     Eva // Madeline // Winterschon (winterschon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 09:05:59 JST Eva // Madeline // Winterschon

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     @Mer__edith There's nothing to push back on yet. The current implementations being fretted about are not Artificial Intelligence.

     LLMs aren't intelligent. They're not imagining or hallucinating incorrect content. They're not self aware. They have no vested interests or personality.

     LLMs do however represent the worst-yet iteration of pseudo-intellect, trained via some of the worst possible scraped data by bigoted coderbros. They choose to make the language models this way.

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     Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 09:06:13 JST Erin Conroy

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     @Mer__edith

     This same tragic story has been repeated in so many fields of human knowledge & endeavor: women raise the alarm about the dangers to society or specific marginalized groups, and suffer the grim personal & professional costs of speaking out, while men focus solely on their professional growth, don't rock the boat even if they do have any doubts, and only express them once their position is unassailable, but the harms are baked in & it's too late to close the barn doors.

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