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Learning & Leadership Development Specialist. Apple Professional Learning Specialist. Apple Distinguished Educator (Class of 2013). Apple Teacher.
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
“Slop Evader [is] a new browser tool that filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.”
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.
Comment on a linked in post, from user Kurtis Loken who presents themself as "Experienced Metrology Engineer | AI/ML real world experience | Patented Solutions | R&D | Mass Production" Comment reads: Emily M. Bender You are a linguist. LLMs have proven some theories disproved others about how language works. I would think that would be an amazing time to be a linguist. Have you ever actually talked to an AI…I mean really talked to one? The Turing test has been passed. (Sonnet 4.5 has particularly impressed me when discussing ideas with it…definitely has passed my own Turing test.) I would really love to see a conversation between yourself and it discussing your views. That would make a great podcast. Have these models explain to you why your idea to ban them may or may not be a good idea. These things probably have their own opinions on the topic if someone would listen to them. Maybe that’s you?
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
For anyone who wants to see that comment in context, it's here, on a post by Dagmar Monett, who is tirelessly trying to bring a dose of reality to that platform.

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It is beyond her "[w]hy you would install an IT system that is designed to produce incorrect results": https://lnkd.in/dCjgaKnz (read please that article titled "OpenAI Goes to $1T Valu...
It is beyond her "[w]hy you would install an IT system that is designed to produce incorrect results": https://lnkd.in/dCjgaKnz (read please that article titled "OpenAI Goes to $1T Valuation on our Da...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Must-watch piece from @karenhao.bsky.social about the mental health risks of chatbots --- especially as Altman is going around having claimed to have "mitigated" them.

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He Lost His Mind Using ChatGPT. Then It Told Him to Contact Me
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October 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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mssiren.bsky.social
📚Libraries are just the best. Quite thrilled that the books by @bcmerchant.bsky.social, @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social, and @karenhao.bsky.social are available at the Helsinki city library, all three with a wait list! 👏🏻🙌🏼 @hel.fi @kirjastoseura.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Coming up in Seattle (and live streaming). Registration:

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Graphic advertising up coming talk 10.21.25 The Graduate School Office of Public Lectures University of Washington The AI Con How to fight big tech's hype and create the future we want Emily M. Bender Professor of Linguistics UW Alex Hanna Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) Graphics include photos of Alex and Emily (jacket photos from the book). Alex is wearing hoop earrings and a black shirt and has her arms crossed. Emily is wearing glasses and small drop earrings and a blue/green patterned shirt. Both are faintly smiling and looking straight at the camera.
September 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
eduveloper.com
That feeling when you know it could’ve been more efficient (and more reliable) working on a Mac than a PC but you don’t have a choice.
elmo from sesame street is looking at the camera while standing in front of a wall .
ALT: elmo from sesame street is looking at the camera while standing in front of a wall .
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September 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

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Screencap of headline from linked article, reading: He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse. OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says. Above the headline: Technology Artificial Intelligence Family & Tech: Julie Jargon Below: By Julie Jargon Follow | Photographs by Tim Gruber for WSJ July 20, 2025 7:00 am ET
August 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
eduveloper.com
“What separates man from machine is that machines cannot think for themselves.” - Severance (Apple TV+ series) #AIEthics
August 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream TODAY!

@disesdi.bsky.social will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to tear into the hype around LLMs for coding & software development more generally.

twitch.tv/dair_institute
Monday, July 21, Noon Pacific
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Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).
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July 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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charleswlogan.bsky.social
Join us for some "empowering, grounding, and even joyful" AI hype resistance! Tomorrow, July 22, at 8pm ET, I'm hosting the virtual @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club for The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social . Registration details at: www.civicsoftechnology.org/events
A quote from The AI Con by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna; the quote reads, “But resisting hype can also be empowering, grounding, and even joyful. It is empowering to reaffirm the value of our skills and expertise. It is grounding to lean in to the value of human-to-human connection, of being human together. And it can be flat-out fun to find the silliest excesses of the hype machine and deflate it, with ridicule as praxis.”
July 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM