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Emily M. Bender criticizes pointless LLM use on Bluesky

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Emily M. Bender expressed frustration with a recurring type of discourse on Bluesky, where users share trivial or pointless applications of large language models (LLMs) and then ask the platform's community to react normally. This pattern highlights a perceived disconnect between the capabilities of LLMs and their practical, or sometimes absurd, uses. AI

IMPACT Highlights a perceived trend of trivial LLM applications in online discourse.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece by a named credible voice.

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Emily M. Bender criticizes pointless LLM use on Bluesky

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  1. Bluesky Jetstream — AI desk TIER_1 English(EN) · emilymbender.bsky.social ·

    Really tried of the genre of bsky discourse that goes: "Here is an incredibly pointless thing I use LLMs for, now please bsky be normal about it."

    Really tried of the genre of bsky discourse that goes: "Here is an incredibly pointless thing I use LLMs for, now please bsky be normal about it." >>

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