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Sitting at the dining table, busy condensing 60 pages of unruly notes into 15 pages of more or less coherent text for my upcoming talk at @CCC.

Every so often I glance up from my computer on this, Christmas Eve, and catch the eye of a family member whose suspicious gaze lets me know that they still don't quite believe that there is in fact a real conference, attended by real people like me, scheduled on Dec 27th.

@Mer__edith @CCC

Why does it sound like you deliberately leaving a public trail, because the last thing _you_ want to be suspected of is use of LLM, right? 😉🤫

Meredith Whittaker

@MrBerard @CCC Quite seriously, I would never. I write (to paraphrase Didion) to know what I think, and I accept talks at venues I respect whose thinking I want to engage with in order to have deadlines that help me move forward with certain inquiries. I would NEVER schlepp myself to Hamburg during the most relaxed time of year to read what a bot wrote at an hour dangerously close to my bedtime!

@Mer__edith @CCC

I have shown that video of you calling chatGPT a bullshit machine to every class I taught (applying a 15+ age rating). 🙏

I can mouth it by heart "so..wastes your time... besmirches my name".

Keep telling them.

@Mer__edith so sweet to read of other folx doing the same thing tonight. I submitted a self-organized session on Relationship Anarchy at 38c3 and I'm still writing the zine that's supposed to form the basis of that presentation.

Looking forwards to your talk! :)

@catileptic oh it's you organising the session on relationship anarchy! I'm so looking forward to it ✨