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   Eryk Salvaggio (cyberneticforests@assemblag.es)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 20:13:14 JST Eryk Salvaggio

   A lot of “thinking” about AI is based on AI’s marketing, rather than what AI does.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 20:13:12 JST pettter

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     @CyberneticForests To be clear, countering the AI marketing is also an occasionally useful task, but should be seen as what it is.

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     Eryk Salvaggio (cyberneticforests@assemblag.es)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 20:37:31 JST Eryk Salvaggio

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     @pettter Critique of the marketing is vital for this very reason, in my mind. My fear is when people start out with the premise that Generative AI is “dreaming” instead of thinking about how models work and the political consequences of building things on top of them.