• Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Most of these arguments were made for computers back when they were gaining popularity fyi.

    The people outsourcing their thinking to LLMs weren’t gonna do much thinking in the first place. And honestly once you use them for a while you quickly realize what their good uses are and what are their limitations and thinking is not its strong suit. But it’s great at sorting large data and making it digestible. Or writing corpo copy that was devoid of meaning anyways.

    Remember that a hammer can kill a person just as well as it can build a house.

    Now I agree that it is annoying that it is being shoved into everything without any good reason, but the market will sort that out. What you are seeing is everyone rushing into a nascent market before it ossifies and shakes everyone except one or two winners. In 10 years I’m sure LLMs will be more like you have one that you plug into every service you use and it will be provided by one of a handful of companies who are the only ones capable of profiting from this because of the economies of scales it requires to work. Ergo not very different from every other tech rush that has happened in history.

    LLMs are tools, simple as. Being a Luddite, screaming and kicking and crying over them is not gonna make it go away any more than boomers crying over computers have managed to make computers go away.

    • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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      16 hours ago

      Your last paragraph implies that I’m naive for believing that complaining about it will make it go away, but I’ve done no such thing.

      the market will sort that out

      This is the naive statement.