Re: Wrong ideas about chatbots

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...