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anthropic spams open source projects with AI slob (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Indeed.

Here is the article that lead me to it: https://acko.net/blog/the-l-in-llm-stands-for-lying/

When I listen to apocalyptic predictions as a result of AI (transformer based generative LLMs to be specific), they're all based on assumption that it "adds value, but at a high energy cost".

They don't consider the destruction of human knowledge, where bullshit generators are "informing" decisions, and "curating" insights. Similar to how all steel made after the invention of nuclear weapons is useless for certain applications, so I find books written after the rise of LLMs.

If only it also didn't come at the low cost of destroying the ability to reason (as numerous studies have shown). Silverlining is that it's also absurdly energy demanding, and further pushing the climate past the point of no return. At the very least, we're are in for a hefty and long recession when the bubble pops. What's not to like?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    My capacity for apocalyptic news has to be carefully metered to prevent burnout and stress. (It's a balancing act.) Humanity seems to be hellbent on heading down a dark road with a bunch of ugly possible turns.

    The potential to stifle FOSS is bad enough. What I find even more concerning is when the LLM gets good enough to reliably fool developers and can inject very complicated exploits from multiple sources.

    I'm a programmer by trade, but it's highly specialized. Otherwise, I'm just a power user/script kiddie. My crystal ball is pinging alarm bells about some of this. It's hard for me to make an accurate assesment of the risk, I lack the knowledge. I expect unspecified bad things and am in a reactionary mode on this.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    I hear you. I'm very much the same, both in trying to not pay too much attention for the same reasons, but also the trade, though perhaps not all that specialised.

    Once the economic aspect of this comes to the conclusion we already know: it isn't sustainable. I think we might start to see a more sensible approach to LLM usage.

    The current status is as if people are asking LLMs if a mushroom they picked is safe to eat, and then serving the whole family. A more sensible approach would be to get a name suggestion from the LLM, then use that as an entry point to manually verify it.

    The LLM user should always be the expert. I.e., don't serve something potentially poisonous. Let it come with suggestions, by all means. But if you don't know enough to verify the correctness of what it says, then you already lost. Unfortunately, this is how most people use it now. Followed by being shocked "it lied".

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