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Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this companion newsletter, linguist Prof. Emily M. Bender and sociologist Dr. Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They talk about everything "AI", from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.
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I Hate Wasting Time on Identifying AI Slop
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/i-hate-wasting-time-on-identifying-ai-slop/
Published: April 16, 2025 13:00
I Hate Wasting Time on Identifying AI Slop By Alex I hate spending time trying to decipher if something is AI slop or not. I do not enjoy that I need to commit a portion of my cognitive energy in staring at ads to try to figure out what I'm looking at. I…
Calling All Mad Scientists: Reject "AI" as a Framing of Your Work
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/calling-all-mad-scientists-reject-ai-as-a-framing/
Published: April 8, 2025 13:00
By Emily tl;dr: Every time you describe your work that involves statistical modeling as "AI" you are lending your power and credibility to Musk and DOGE. Mad scientists at #HandsOff2025 protests On Saturday, April 5, I joined approximately 25,000 other…
Upcoming talks & events
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/upcoming-talks-events/
Published: March 13, 2025 13:00
We are really looking forward to our book launch events in May and June, and also want to let you know about some earlier events where we are each speaking: March 18, 2025: Alex will speaking virtually about The AI Con at the Milner Library at Illinois…
Pushback and accountability
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/pushback-and-accountability/
Published: February 5, 2025 14:00
By Emily In the midst of all of the political chaos these past few weeks have brought, the drumbeat of AI hype continues unabated, and indeed, it is often interwoven with the havoc that Trump, Musk, their allies in the GOP, and the rest of the tech…
THE AI CON — available for pre-order!
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/the-ai-con-available-for-pre-order/
Published: December 10, 2024 14:00
We are beyond excited to announce that our book, The AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want is now available for pre-order. It'll be released on May 13, 2025. Look at that gorgeous cover! It will be released next year, but if…
ChatGPT Has No Place in the Classroom
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-has-no-place-in-the-classroom/
Published: November 22, 2024 14:00
By Emily On November 20, 2024, OpenAI and an outfit called "Common Sense Media" released a guide to using ChatGPT in K-12 education—a guide which shows a shocking lack of common sense. Just as Melanie Dusseau tells us in the context of higher ed, K-12…
The AI/Fascism Nexus
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/the-aifascism-nexus/
Published: November 8, 2024 15:00
The AI/Fascism Nexus By Alex Oops, we did it again. I can't say that I'm terribly surprised, as Harris ran a center right campaign and tossed a mighty chunk of the coalition under the bus while courting Liz Cheney and her war criminal father. Of course,…
Information literacy and chatbots as search
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/information-literacy-and-chatbots-as-search/
Published: November 5, 2024 14:00
By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and then below I address several recurring responses I saw on social media. The thread As OpenAI and Meta…
"Virtual Employees" and Remixing Machines Devalue Human Work
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/virtual-employees-and-remixing-machines-devalue/
Published: October 25, 2024 16:12
Nadella's Arguments against Copyright Misrepresent both People and Computers By Emily According to Katie Prescott in The Times Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is out there arguing that copyright laws need to be reworked to enable "transformative" technology. I…
Happy International Podcast Day!
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/happy-international-podcast-day/
Published: September 30, 2024 13:00
Shout outs to our faves In honor of International Podcast Day, we thought we'd give a shout out to a few podcasts we enjoy that we think Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 fans would also like. 404 Media 404 Media is a recently (as in, a bit over a year ago)…