@emilymbender@dair-community.social: I my talk called “ChatGP-Why: When, if ever, is synthetic text safe, appropriate, and desirable?” I outline criteria for what would have to be true of a use case to make synthetic text a good match for it. …@emilymbender@dair-community.social: For example, when people ask me (as George did) if I see positive use cases for “AI”, I always ask them to specify what they mean by that term for the purposes of the question. In this case, we narrowed it down to large language models run as synthetic text extruding machines.@emilymbender@dair-community.social: More importantly, I would not describe chatbots or LLMs as “a fancy wrapper around some spreadsheets.” That remark comes from The AI Con, where @alex and I are describing the range of things now marketed as “AI”. Sometimes, the marketer is talking about an LLM (or synthetic text extruding machine), but other times, it's even more mundane. …@emilymbender@dair-community.social: My remark that LLMs were “born shitty” was in the context of a discussion of Cory Doctorow's notion of “enshittification”. That process involves something that starts of beneficial for consumers (or at least the consumers in focus). LLMs used as synthetic text extruding machines have no legitimate use cases and — …@emilymbender@dair-community.social: Sitting down for a lunch interview is definitely an interesting experience! Leaving the roughly two-hour conversation with George Hammond, I felt like we'd covered good ground but had no idea what of that would make it into the piece. In the end, I think this covers it pretty well, though I (of course) have a couple of quibbles/some context to add. …, Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces "leaner, smarter, and more lethal." When I read a tweet about four , A look at the US Army Reserve's Detachment 201, which lets tech executives, like Meta's Bosworth, give advice as senior officers while keeping their day jobs — Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces “leaner, smarter, and more lethal.”.