@rhelune Charles Koch is spending a billion dollars to convince front line workers that they didn't really need that job that AI took.https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/04/qa-tech-billionaires-ai-space-empire-fantasies-are-an-insidious-form-of-climate-denial/https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/inside-the-plot-to-cover-europe-with-gas-powered-ai-data-centres/https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/google-president-praised-maga-speech-slamming-climate-extremist-agenda/https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/amazon-sponsors-ai-energy-summit-featuring-climate-deniers/https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/ai-slop-websites-are-publishing-climate-science-denial/These folks have never cared about "economic mobility" except for themselves. https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/The deregulation push for AI is alarming. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-economic-inequality-gates-foundation-stand-together-5c84fa707ba8275a7afb2bc5245c286d

I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922I was surprised to learn:1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance2. There is an emoji in the title 3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell#StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI