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An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Hello, recent Reddit convert here and I'm loving it. You even inspired me to figure out how to fully dump Windows and install LineageOS.

One thing I can't understand is the level of acrimony toward LLMs. I see things like "stochastic parrot", "glorified autocomplete", etc. If you need an example, the comments section for the post on Apple saying LLMs don't reason is a doozy of angry people: https://infosec.pub/post/29574988

While I didn't expect a community of vibecoders, I am genuinely curious about why LLMs strike such an emotional response with this crowd. It's a tool that has gone from interesting (GPT3) to terrifying (Veo 3) in a few years and I am personally concerned about many of the safety/control issues in the future.

So I ask: what is the real reason this is such an emotional topic for you in particular? My personal guess is that the claims about replacing software engineers is the biggest issue, but help me understand.

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LLMS are a cool/useful technology but i feel mixed about it cause i feel like LLMS is trained/done unethically like Training on random data(eg, Creative Commons,Copyleft licenses) ,Flooding websites with traffic,Bad for the environment(I heard somewhere that it drains water),Companies trying to shove it down your throat everywhere with no option to disable it,and people using it calling themselves artists
Local/Source-avaible LLMS (like QWEN) solves this(I am pretty sure) but just has some of the issue above but atleast its not feeding every data i give it into AI

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