Are you really gonna use the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument to defend LLMS?
Let’s not forget that the first ‘L’ stands for “large”. These things do not exist without massive, power and resource hungry data centers. You can’t just say “Blame government mismanagement! Blame corporate greed!” without acknowledging that LLMs cease to exist without those things.
And even with all of those resources behind it, the technology is still only marginally useful at best. LLMs still hallucinate, they still confidently distribute misinformation, they still contribute to mental health crises in vulnerable individuals, and no one really has any idea how to stop those things from happening.
What tangible benefit is there to LLMs that justifies their absurd cost? Honestly?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
making up deficiencies in your own artistic and linguistic skills , getting easy starting points for coding solutions.
Emergent behaviour can be useful in coming up with new ideas that you were not expecting and areas to explore
yeah, that’s been a problem since language, if you want a statement more close to the topic at hand, the printing press.
so does the fucking internet.