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Humanist Archives: Nov. 22, 2025, 9:33 a.m. Humanist 39.229 - LLMs and their bullshit potential

				
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        Date: 2025-11-21 13:21:39+00:00
        From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 39.225: LLMs and their bullshit potential

attention drawn! with subsequent action
Maurizio

Il 20/11/25 14:17, Humanist ha scritto:
> 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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mau mau, con chi fugge

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Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli


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