Episode 8: The ChatGPT Awakens, January 20, 2023
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New year, new hype? As the world gets swept up in the fervor over ChatGPT of late 2022, Emily and Alex give a deep sigh and begin to unpack the wave of fresh enthusiasm over large language models and the "chat" format specifically. Plus, more fresh AI hell. This episode was recorded on January 20, 2023. Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube. References: Situating Search (Shah & Bender 2022)  Related op-ed: https://iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-machines-are-a-fantasy-auid-2334 Piantadosi's thread showing ChatGPT writing a program to classify white males as good scientists Find Anna Lauren Hoffman's publications (though not yet the one we were referring to) here: https://www.annaeveryday.com/publications Sarah T. Roberts, Behind the Screen  Karen Hao's AI Colonialism series  Milagros Miceli: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/spezialseiten/persons-details/p/milagros-miceli/ Julian Posada: https://posada.website/ “This Isn’t Your Data, Friend”: Black Twitter as a Case Study on Research Ethics for Public Data (Klassen & Fiesler 2022)  No Humans Here: Ethical Speculation on Public Data, Unintended Consequences, and the Limits of Institutional Review (Pater, Fiesler & Zimmer 2022)  Casey Fiesler's publications: https://caseyfiesler.com/publications/ And TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@professorcasey Where are human subjects in Big Data research? The emerging ethics divide. (Metcalf & Crawford 2016)  You can check out future livestreams at https://twitch.tv/DAIR_Institute. Follow us! Emily Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyMBender Mastodon: https://dair-community.social/@EmilyMBender Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/emilymbender.bsky.social Alex Twitter: https://twitter.com/@alexhanna Mastodon: https://dair-community.social/@alex Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alexhanna.bsky.social Music by Toby Menon. Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Christie Taylor.
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