Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate
doctorschlotkin@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoEverything you said is great except for the rock metaphor. It’s more akin to a gun in that it’s a tool made by man that has the capacity to do incredible damage and already has on a social level.
Guns ain’t just laying around on the ground, nor are LLMs. Rocks however, are, like, it’s practically their job.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
LLMs and generative AI will do what social media did to us, but a thousand times worse. All that plus the nightmarish capacity of pattern matching at an industrial scale. Inequalities, repression, oppression, and corruption will skyrocket because of it. It’s genuinely terrifying.