You Are Not a Parrot
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And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

We’ve learned to make “machines that can mindlessly generate text. But we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it.”

Thank you for sharing, this is a fantastic read. So much respect for prof. Bender and others like her who are providing solid analyses of the AI text generators.

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