Having read the compared stories now, I have to say I’m deeply offended at the results. The AI stories are quicker to read because they are chains of cliches which state and restate the theme of the story (as stated in the prompt) outright instead of demonstrating it through the charged and personal perspectives of the characters. The LLM generated text is meaningless word sausage formatted to be easier to read for people who don’t read much. I have never read something more cynical, and I have read plenty of trash by authors who hate their audience and consider them all to be idiots.

This is like comparing landscape paintings to photographs of the same landscape from the same perspective and asking random people to judge which one they think is better. This is an insane comparison.

My holy grail of FOSS is a version of creation kit where modders could create their own Elder Scrolls like games.

LLM companies may now freely commit corporate espionage because the news media is locked into reporting the claims that LLMs are capable of things like this as fact. This is like when the US bombed the girls school in Iran and blamed it on AI and the news reported it as fact until it was clear reasonable people weren’t willing to accept that excuse in that context. Corporate espionage is certainly not as bad as the mass murder of little girls, so people are willing to buy it since it doesn’t matter as much.

No running on the Promenade!

How?

I’m sure people who abuse their family members have plenty of good qualities as well. I’m not sure how that’s relevant to what I said.

I think a lot of world problems would be solved if these things were encouraged instead. If someone needs their romantic partner to be a mindless sycophant, I would rather them have that with a machine than try to abuse a human person into serving them as would be more traditional. More children being born in situations other than exploitation and manipulation could only be a good thing.

It’s weird that I’ve spent most of my time living in a post-economic world of abundance which I’m not allowed to acknowledge or encourage others to acknowledge because the pretend economy of valuation and confidence depends on exclusively on showmanship and nothing else. The LLM bubble may persist because the work being “saved” never needed to be done in the first place, so it not being done makes no difference to investors being told what got done as usual.

I can tell you are experienced with Rubberducking. Thanks for the detailed answer.

Thanks for specifying a legitimate use-case for this tool. I understand that google search has been the most valuable programming tool for a very long time so it makes sense LLMs would be more helpful in the same kind of way. Search engine technology is quite a bit different than blockchain or VR in terms of consumer and business demand.

For my purposes of news and history research, the unreliability of LLMs making me have to check all its claims every single time negates its usefulness as an assistant because I will have to examine its references anyway so it’s more time effective for me to skip the questionable output I would get and do the research myself in the first place. How have you been able to manage the issue of unreliability with the volumes of data you’re dealing with? Is the kind of data which you’re dealing with less likely to be unreliable since it is of a kind the LLM is more likely to process correctly?

The difference that I’ve seen is that the internet was a development of communication technology which has been in clear demand since at least the 1800s. Chatbots have been around for the last few decades and have been treated as novelties by consumers for brief periods intermittently throughout my life. LLMs are the most sophisticated chatbots ever designed and are better than ever at imitating Austin Powers, but is that something we can expect will ever revolutionize the economy? Can we replace the labor force with a technology which can’t do work but can convince the most credulous people that it can?

LLMs are more like vr goggles with the force of the entire plutocracy pumping up the bubble. What is the value proposition for “intelligence” which can’t reason nor possibly determine fact from falsehood? When consumers start to pay what it actually costs to run these things, is it possible to profit? What are they good at other than confidence schemes?

This is kind of unprecedented. Usually a government only considers nationalizing an industry after it’s established. LLMs are still in the speculative pre-adoption phase, and unlike many other technologies from the last century, LLMs are not very useful at anything other than obfuscating accountability. This is great for racketeers and infuriating for the vast majority of people who have been outspoken at refusing to accept the worthless garbage LLMs can print on demand.

This is a huge problem for LLMs as they cost more to run they they can possibly produce. The only value proposition is technically existing in industries which are totally speculative and require no productivity other than from their salespeople. LLMs can only last for as long as our economy remains fundamentally fraudulent. Making a public bet on LLMs to keep the fraud up is a massive risk that the people taking it have never had to worry about understanding.

A washing machine with no intelligence has replaced the task of me doing my laundry by hand. There are probably tasks that LLMs would be suited for if they ever become reliable or consistent in any way.

I’m in a US state with a submissive to authority government. As of today it’s still giving me an “unable to connect” page.

Yesterday the site and its mirrors redirected to an eero page saying it was blocked because it was “dangerous.” Today it was a more general couldn’t connect page.

My eero router recently got an update which permanently blocks archive.ph . What a coincidence.

I used to think so. It’s ideologically sound except for allowing corporations the same free use as anyone else. There are plenty of forward thinking people who would never want to support the oppressive evil of massive technology corporations and would never intentionally help them. Then they publish free software and directly help them anyway. It’s not a coincidence that most “free” software is funded by the US tech industry who is directly benefited from it. I’m not sure of a way to change it that would help regular people faster than it helps private industry crush regular people.

Israel would look very different if they didn’t have the total impunity the US provides especially recently. Everything the Israeli government has done has been the US’s responsibility for decades. The US doesn’t give Israel privileged treatment because they’ve been tricked. They do it because Israel is primarily their own colony that they want to see made permanent.