Recognizing AI Hype and How People Can Fight Back / Emily Bender and Alex Hanna

What AI hype does it gives the idea that these things are more than what they are. What they are are these text extrusion machines and so that’s important to point out. And so pointing out that the emperor wears no clothes is a very important step. From what we call this on the podcast is using ridicule as praxis. As a way of showing that this is not some incredible new technology. It’s a massive carbon sink that has terrible environmental implications based on stolen work and relying on exploitative labor conditions. Pointing it out that it’s not that impressive. It is mid. So the outputs are bad of in themselves. And then there is the question of power. How do we fight back against this?