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        Date: 2025-11-20 11:22:23+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: Large Language Models

This is to draw your attention to a collection of papers in Ethics and
Information Technology under the heading "Large Language Models: A
Philosophical Reckoning", ed. Olya Kudina and Mark Alfano
(https://link.springer.com/collections/fajiigfiih)

The collection includes the following:

Large language models and their big bullshit potential
Sarah A. Fisher

An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI
Xiaomei Bi
Xingyuan Su
Xiaoyan Liu

Easy-read and large language models: on the ethical dimensions of
LLM-based text simplification
Nils Freyer
Hendrik Kempt
Lars Klöser

The hidden influence: exploring presence in human-synthetic interactions
through ghostbots
Andrew McStay

Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and
contextualized user guidelines for LLM use
Kristian González Barman
Nathan Wood
Pawel Pawlowski

Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models
Simon W. S. Fischer
Bas de Boer

A phenomenology and epistemology of large language models: transparency,
trust, and trustworthiness
Richard Heersmink
Barend de Rooij
Matteo Colombo

ChatGPT is bullshit
Michael Townsen Hicks
James Humphries
Joe Slater

Getting it right: the limits of fine-tuning large language models
Jacob Browning

Diversity and language technology: how language modeling bias causes
epistemic injustice
Paula Helm
Gábor Bella
Fausto Giunchiglia


--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts,
   Sciences and Humanities (Berghahn); Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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