AI technologies are more riddled with marketing hype than actual capabilities, new book suggests
Alex Hanna and Emily Bender, coauthors of "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want," say current AI systems aren't democratizing creativity and labor, but rather cheapening it, while also preventing consumers from owning the data collected on them.
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