Post #3394707

2026-06-23 19:44 UTC

Part of what makes that middle ground untenable and uncomfortable, I think, is that it requires carrying water for these clearly bad actors. You can set that bucket down and step out onto firmer ground. This does require going against the mainstream, but that gets easier when a) you find you're not alone and b) you see how much of mainstream opinion on this is actually the result of marketing. /fin for now

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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space 2026-06-23 19:46

@emilymbender@dair-community.social good thread. very good thread. many thanks for it. we do see this tension play out a lot, it's helpful to have positive advice for people in the middle of it.

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@NoRomBasic@mastodon.world 2026-06-23 19:56

@emilymbender@dair-community.social Good thread, not sure if I am in alignment with every detail, but certainly with the overall philosophy.

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@jaztrophysicist@social.sciences.re 2026-06-23 20:02

@emilymbender@dair-community.social ⬆️ this this this 💯

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-06-23 20:24

@emilymbender@dair-community.social Good thread!

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@xvf17@sfba.social 2026-06-23 20:38

@emilymbender@dair-community.social Heard an interview today with two of the execs from Anthropic. The way they describe their products is maddening. They use words like thinking, intuition, and understanding. None of that is going on. I was screaming at the podcast.

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@jzb@hachyderm.io 2026-06-23 20:51

@emilymbender@dair-community.social Great thread.

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@elle@weathered-steel.social 2026-06-23 21:22

@emilymbender@dair-community.social great thread, I think at different points I've run into each of the points you laid out (especially when I was trying to be more amenable to LLM users). since, I've grown to taking a much more hard-line anti-big-tech-LLM, neutral-to-meh academic/open-model LLM, and recommending searching out all alternatives before turning to the tech as a solution. thank you for your work in this area, as you and @alex@dair-community.social have helped shaped my opinions/knowledge on the subject.

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