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From: Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink>
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Subject: Re: Wrong ideas about chatbots
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 14:27:49 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-06-08, Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote or quoted:
                                               ^^^^^^

Just to be clear, i quoted it.  I am not the author of this blog.

>|         you'd start with an enormous quantity of text, then do a lot
>|of computationally-intense statistical analysis to map out which
>|words and phrases are most likely to appear near to one another.

You are fixating on the technical and ignoring the social.  From the
original article:

[AI] turns social relations into number-crunching operations...

Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, has
described AI as being fundamentally "surveillance technology".

AI systems have found their best product-market fit in police and
military applications, where short-circuiting people's critical
thinking and decision-making processes is incredibly useful...