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BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Youtube and Netflix provide an actually useful service that allows people to watch/share videos. LLMs use an obscene amount of energy to do what is essentially just a fancy google search. Comparing the 2 is not justified

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Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
By your logic a lot of Wikipedia is useless, you can just go to a library and look up the information in books.

LLm's provide an actual useful service, else people wouldn't be paying to use them.

Pretending it isn't is rediculous.

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- BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  People are paying for them because they are brain dead MBA’s who think it’s the future. My litttle library in rural Ohio doesn’t have shit about the Mau Mau rebellion. Knowledge collections are worthwhile. Opening up a new nuclear plant so that you can fire all your customer support staff and replace them with chatbots is not useful.
  
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  - Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    A lot of software devs also use it to find the right syntax for something, or to add more unit tests etc.
    
    LLMs are very useful, thats just a really you have we accept, I wish it was never invented, but it's here and it's here to stay.
    
    I myself find it very useful, I tried to deny ot at first but you have to accept reality
    
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  - Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Do you ever use Wikipedia to look up something that is in your library?
    
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