@emilymbender@dair-community.social
2026-02-21 16:44 UTC
I also want to point out (again) the ways in which lumping together all uses of LMs (like the lumping of technologies into "AI") obscures the issues at hand.
Language modeling is a useful component of many technologies that can be built without extractive, exploitative means. Take the automatic transcription built by and for the Māori people -- there's te reo Māori language model that's part of that.
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@emilymbender@dair-community.social 2026-02-21 16:45
And the transformer architecture represented an important step forward in language modeling, that brought improvements to things like spell checking (Doctorow's use case). >>
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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange 2026-02-21 18:15
@emilymbender@dair-community.social Oh c'mon! Let not facts stand in the way of the Luddite hordes... ...least you be denounced as a broligarch/techbro by the righteous!