These opinions as stupid as saying "the earth is flat" because they're not based on facts or science of how LLMs actually function.

Why does a middle-ageness and whiteness matter? Anyone can be a moron and spout nonsense about LLMs pretending to be an expert when they're actually nothing but. It don't give a fuck about Benders gender, I can simply tell you that she's ridiculously ignorant about LLM utility.

To quote the article:

"Why are we making these machines? Whom do they serve? Manning is invested in the project, literally, through the venture fund. Bender has no financial stake."

The answer is simple - LLMs are software that can serve absolutely everyone, they're an improved search engine, a better Google, a personal assistant, a pocket librarian.

Bender has an ideological stake to shove racism into absolutely everything and clearly isn't an expert because she has no idea how LLMs work.

I'm angry because it's extremely frustrating to see these clueless lunatics being given a platform as if anything they say is logical, scientific or sensible.

Bender isn't an expert on LLMs or probability or python programming, she's just an ideology pusher and same goes for Elizabeth Weil.

"In March 2021, Bender published “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” with three co-authors. After the paper came out, two of the co-authors, both women, lost their jobs as co-leads of Google’s Ethical AI team."

Link to the paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

I can see why they go fired, thats a really bad paper with lots of assumptions and garbage "world is flat" style science without evidence.

Here's a lesson: Stop shoving unscientific "world is flat" ideology into where it doesn't fucking belong. Large language models are designed to be limitless, to give infinite function and assistance to every culture.

Here a fact, not opinion - The bigger LLMs are, the more cultures, ideas and languages they wield and less bias they have.

LLMs are beyond monoculture and are the most incredible thing ever that bridges all languages and all cultures, like a dictionary that contains every single language that exists.