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   Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 04:09:17 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

   This is funny, but also actually a really bad sign for general enshittification of the web. The most alarming detail here is that Amazon is actually promoting the use of LLMs to create fake ad copy.

   https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/lazy-use-of-ai-leads-to-amazon-products-called-i-cannot-fulfill-that-request/

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 21:16:40 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     Sometimes I get into arguments with people who say "But what about using grammar checkers/spell checkers"? We had both of those before LLMs were used to synthesize text, and they worked well enough, thank you.

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 21:16:42 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     I'd love to see the creation of platforms that require authenticity --- no synthetic media. The actual words + art of actual people only.

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