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   Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 05:03:48 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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   "The way out of AI hell is not to regroup around our treasured flaws and beautiful frailties, but to launch a frontal assault. AI, not the human mind, is the weak, narrow, crude machine."

   "[R]esisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit."

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 05:03:49 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

     This is long, but worth it. Some choice quotes:
     https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/

     "Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind."

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) and Mr. Bill repeated this.