Post by @leahmcelrath.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

2026-09-24 00:30 UTC

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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@feyter@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-09-24 03:18

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social I'm not so sure about that animal part in it. Humans are animals after all (even if that's hard to accept for some)

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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-09-24 02:57

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social Would also like more reporting on the billionaires funding the AI bubble. Except for Nvidia's creative accounting, that copies Enron's circular finance fraud, everyone else is losing money. The fossil fuel industry adores laundering its money in stock market pump & dumps, but there is also a political agenda for this loss leader... ...thwarting the switch to cheaper renewable energy https://www.wired.com/story/us-data-centers-drive-gas-power-expansion/ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-compares-ai-warnings-to-past-climate-fears-he-wrongly-says-were-a-hoax/

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