MIT's Phillip Isola rips AP style guidance on AI wording as unscientific doctrine
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-26
- Phillip Isola criticized the AP Stylebook's guidance on AI terminology as non-scientific and out of sync with everyday usage, arguing style guides shouldn't impose scientific doctrine on unresolved questions.
- The poster counters that anthropomorphizing statistical models obscures corporate accountability: media should describe what systems actually do, not adopt marketing illusions—fidelity isn't cognition.
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