2026-04-14 22:59 UTC
RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116397605266279416
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Lecture by @emilymbender on dehumanisation dimensions (view from the humanities) vs "synthetic text-extruding machines" - the so-called #GenAI
Video: from min. 7 https://youtu.be/T7Lc6QNxolQ?t=442
Slides with bibliography (pp. 55-56): [1]
#References
[1] Bender, E.M., 2026. Resisting dehumanization in the age of “AI”: the view from the humanities. Presented at the Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., United States. https://purl.org/INRMM-MiD/z-DP229IA4
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@dderigo@hostux.social 2026-04-15 10:45
2/ From min. 16: #LLM training data "basically grabbing everything" on the internet. "there's a lot of garbage there, right? And there's no documentation. So if we don't know what's in the data, we are in no way positioned to actually mitigate the harms. [...] the synthetic text that you can create using a language model recreates the #SystemsOfOppression that are in the training data and can also mislead people if it gets fluent enough. We think that maybe there's a thinking mind behind it"