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   Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 02:04:17 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

   There's so much to dunk on in this NYT piece and so little time, but I gotta start here: Some law profs at U Chicago did a study to see if the chatbots could answer questions based on specific materials and found, unsurprisingly, that they make shit up.

   https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/chatgpt-openai-colleges.html

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 02:04:41 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     This is honestly fully predictable from the tech bros at this point (though still baffling that they don't understand that papier-mâché of "good data" is still papier-mâché). What's more disappointing to me here is the failure of the journalist to call them on this bs.

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 02:04:42 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     So the NYT then quotes, wtih an apparent straight face, the various excuses the model providers have for their systems getting it wrong:

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