ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

Photo: Ian Allen This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Nobody likes an I-told-you-so. But before Microsoft’s Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta’s Galactica spewed racist rants; before ChatGPT began writing such perfectly decent college essays that some professors said, “Screw it, I’ll just stop grading”; and before tech reporters sprinted to claw back claims that AI was the future of search, maybe the future of everything else, too, Emily M. Bender co-wrote the octopus paper. Bender

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