Timnit Gebru (she/her)
There are so many fake quotes by me each week that I don't what to do about them. Someone just posted a medium article with another fake quote from me saying "Generative AI is not just about creating something new, but about capturing what was once impossible to express."
If you know anything about my work you know that I would never say something like this.
As @emilymbender said what so called Generative AI has done is basically the equivalent of an oil spill in our information ecosystem.
Rich Felker
@timnitGebru @emilymbender Sounds libelous and like a good lawyer could turn it into permanent funding for your work. Like, that kind of fake quote is very directly interfering with and discrediting your real career work.
Timnit Gebru (she/her)
I keep on seeing synthetic text in my comments, for example, which social media platforms actively shove down people's throats. We used to call these things inauthentic coordinated activity to be taken down, but now you have the platforms themselves encouraging everyone to take part in such activities. There was one account I saw that was commenting on posts every minute in different languages.
Timnit Gebru (she/her)
Sometimes I flag them as spam, other times fake accounts, but given that the platforms themselves encourage people to use chatbots to spam all of us, they don't have it as an option that we can report.
Timnit Gebru (she/her)
The oil spill metaphor is elaborated in Section 6 of Chirag Shah and Emily's paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468.
Rich Felker
@timnitGebru @emilymbender "Agent of entity X publishes false quote about something agent of entity Y allegedly said, when entity X is in a commercially adversarial relationship to entity Y and stands to benefit from the defamatory misquote" seems like clear libel.
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