Truly: this 5 min video by linguist @emilymbender.bsky.socialwww.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0m...

On ChatGPT: "Its only job is autocomplete, but it can keep autocompleting v. coherently to make v. long text... The outputs...don't actually make sense: we are making sense of [them] & It's v. hard to evaluate them b/c we have to take that distance from our own cognition to do so."

Yep. I have been describing and writing about automation for a long time, now. AI is part of that automation, but other factors make automation as well.

Thank you!

Brilliant. Especially love @emilybender.bsky.social’s insight that the term “AI” itself serves to evade accountability for its makers by tricking us into believing that automated behaviour amounts to independent thinking.Not sure I’ve ever seen so many important arguments packaged so succinctly.Brilliant. Especially love @emilybender.bsky.social’s insight that the term “AI” itself serves to evade accountability for its makers by tricking us into believing that automated behaviour amounts to independent thinking.Not sure I’ve ever seen so many important arguments packaged so succinctly.