ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender Bender is a computational linguist at the University of Washington She published the paper in 2020 with fellow computational linguist Alexander Koller The goal was to illustrate what large
AI sceptic Emily Bender: ‘The emperor has no clothes’ By George Hammond June 20th 2025 Before Emily Bender and I have looked at a menu, she has dismissed artificial intelligence chatbots as “plagiarism machines” and “synthetic text extruders” Soon after the food arrives, the professor of linguistics adds that the vaunted large language models (LLMs) that underpin them are “born shitty” Since OpenAI launched […]
An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who . . . An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more — The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’
#1563: Deconstructing AI Hype with “The AI Con” Authors Emily . . . And so on today's episode, I'm going to be deconstructing some of this AI hype by talking to the authors of a book called The AI Con, Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna They do a great job of looking at all this AI hype and starting to deconstruct from the computational linguistics and sociological point of view, looking at the limitations of
AI skeptic Emily Bender warns that ‘the emperor has no . . . Critique highlights AI hype as autocomplete illusion Computational linguistics expert Emily Bender has criticized the current wave of AI enthusiasm as “the emperor has no clothes,” describing flagship technologies such as ChatGPT as merely glorified autocomplete systems and cautioning that their marketing obscures opaque data practices, energy waste, and ethical risks