120 reviews for:

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna

4.13 AVERAGE

melitiamelitia's review against another edition

3.75

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

geek_mama_em's review against another edition

5.0

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everyone should read this cause fuck AI 🖕🖕

jenchaput's review against another edition

4.5

informative fast-paced

argenis's review against another edition

5.0

funny informative inspiring medium-paced

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You have to read this book.

bitter_snapple's review

5.0

dark funny informative inspiring

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Excellent counterpoint to the razzle dazzle sales pitches of Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and the rest of the tech bro scumbags.  Does a good job explaining the technologies behind "AI" and why they don't actually do the things most people think they do along with the negative impacts to the planet and our communities.  Provides hope for anyone looking to fight back and not accept the inevitability what they're shoveling.

enomem's review against another edition

4.0

funny informative reflective fast-paced

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Good read, if a little light. If you’re already super engage in the discourse regarding LLMs, you’ve likely read many of the talking points.

Regardless, it’s a good refutation of a pointless and destructive trend.

beckycaret's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative medium-paced

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Equipped me to think critically about what is marketed as AI, and the different types of automated computing. It gave a thorough history of what lead us here and left me with hope and methods for how to deal with the future.

cecinator20's review against another edition

3.25

informative medium-paced

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I wanted to like this, I really did, as I think the topic is important and I was hopeful that the linguistics and sociology backgrounds of the authors would enlighten me in a way that my technical background was missing, but alas. The uninitiated might find this book interesting/mind blowing/shocking, but I guess I was already aware enough of the evils of AI hype? My biggest complaint is that the subtitle implies you’ll learn how to fight the hype, but the authors do not deliver, instead maybe instructing the reader how to identify big, bad AI (hype). The tone was also not it - I think other reviewers have correctly identified it as snarky, but also, the authors unfortunately have the unwarranted self-importance of podcast bros 😬

emeraldgreenrosegold's review against another edition

4.0

dark informative medium-paced

davidkhardman's review against another edition

4.0

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced