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The reason LLMs are so popular is that they allow incompetent people to appear competent. This fits so well into the structure of today's companies that success is guaranteed. (lemmy.world)
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This explains why this promising technology can’t be put to good use, why there can’t be a compensation model similar to YouTube’s, why it’s called artificial intelligence, and all that.

It’s an ideological issue, and it’s dominated by those who are used to their work being worth an absurd amount of money per hour— it's promoted by the combined power of all those vultures who have never accomplished even the slightest thing in their lives. It’s the wet dream of Wall Street hedge fund managers and CEOs who keep moving on after they’ve ruined yet another company.

That’s why it’s so incredibly fitting that the U.S. regime is betting so heavily on LLMs—they’re the prime example of the very actors preventing humanity from benefiting from this technological achievement. They epitomize what happens when egregious incompetence, criminal energy, and utter unscrupulousness are given opportunities and power that they should never have.

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[–] 6 points 2 months ago

Life in the era of the Business Idiot!

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    [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Cory Doctorow makes a similar point in that if the execs didn't show up for work not a whole lot would change. If the workers didn't show up nothing would get done. The C-Suite chuds deep down know this and hate it and LLMs are sold to these people under the false premise that they can be execs who matter because they can fire these pesky workers and replace them with AI which runs under the direction of the execs, making them relevant and saving money.

    Of course, it's a crock of shit but the AI companies are happy to sell this dream.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    they allow incompetent people to appear competent.

    What would you say are some top examples of such?

    On the flip side, it seems like there's a legion of examples of people using LLM tech sloppily, and getting busted or shamed for that. *shrug*

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I think a recent post on the Rust blog sums this up quite well:

    Technical products no longer indicate effort

    It used to be that if an open source project got a polished, well-tested, detailed PR, that indicated that there was someone on the other end who had put time, effort, and understanding into the PR. [...] With LLMs, none of these signals are reliable

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    My internet service (Spectrum) just did an 'upgrade' today, and now a bunch of sites aren't working for me, including that blog site. So the context there is what, exactly?

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    This did what everything else before it did; made tech more accessible. You are going to see the most shit you have ever seen in your life. Can you make something good with it? Yes, with a lot of work. Can you make shit with it? More effortlessly than ever. So you're going to see an avalanche of shit, because thats what removing barriers to access does.

    I'm more interested for the unsustainable spy network to fall so that these things are trapped in our GPUs. When everyone can craft some dumb ass local only app on demand it will actually be kind of cool. But right now with the tendrils of capitalists choking it the tech will not be put to good use. All the worst people in existence control it right now.

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