⟳ Репост от Emily M. Bender
Emily Bender gives us language connecting what those who make LLMs take from what belongs to humanity as a whole AND she lays how they're used, *even when deployed solely rhetorically,* to reorganize power, people's lives, and environments. It can be hard to hold all of this in your head. LLMs...
Emily M. Benderthey are built out of massive exploitation of people and the environment AND AT THE SAME TIME they are being used (as rhetorical and material technologies) to centralize power, degrade working environments, paper over inequities, amplify systems of oppression etc etc >>