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AI skeptic Emily Bender warns that ‘the emperor has no clothes’

Critique highlights AI hype as autocomplete illusion
Computational linguistics expert Emily Bender has criticized the current wave of AI enthusiasm as “the emperor has no clothes,” describing flagship technologies such as ChatGPT as merely glorified autocomplete systems and cautioning that their marketing obscures opaque data practices, energy waste, and ethical risks.
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