On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?

Bender et al., 2021, On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots (Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’21))

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Why is accountability central to the risks of synthetic text?
Synthetic text can enter conversations with no person or organization accountable for its truth, yet people interpret it as if someone meant it; accountability is part of how meaning is situated.
- Bender et al., 2021, On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots (Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’21)), §6.3, p. 618

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Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’21), pp. 610–623. License: CC BY 4.0. Flashcards adapted from this work. doi:10.1145/3442188.3445922