I’m gonna say it: The entire “artificial intelligence”/“machine learning” research field is corrupt. They have institutionally accepted the bullshit fountain as a tool. It doesn’t matter if they’re only using chatbots as a “pilot program”; they’ve bought into the ideology. They’ve granted fashtech a seat at the bar and forced all the other customers to shake its hand.

Abso-fucking-lutely. Oxford’s latest “research paper” isn’t marketing - its propaganda. Propaganda for bullshit fountains, and for the ideology which endorses them.