@individeweal the right response, because I am being a bit silly. The real claim is not that you hate computers, not LLMs. It is that there is no consistent position in which you rail against LLMs but not the IT world more generally. Even this is strictly false, as we shall see. It is very influenced by this article:
https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/

It is maybe better to start at the other end though. First the counterexample. You once pointed out to me that LLMs are bad in a very specific way. They poison the web, by scraping sites, putting huge loads on servers and making it too expensive for the little guy to run their own site. That is a reason to hate LLMs that is unique to them, I think. It is also not a very deep objection to them and not what motivates much of the hatred.

People also like to claim that they hate the tech because it is useless, but that is bullshit. They don't do all they are cracked up to do, sure, but they do solve some problems. To use your example of tech allowing communication, they are good editors and translators. I use Deepl every day to write better French or to understand texts in languages I don't speak. I use speech-to-text software to write most of my stuff. This is improved dramatically by LLMs. They are good at summarising text, enough to allow for interactive natural language searches.

All of this feeds into what really upsets people about the tech. It is making jobs obsolete. This is what computers have been doing for ages. You used to have an army of highly skilled archivists and clerks to organise data and to do the searches. Now you have massive databases you can query from anywhere. The fear of the LLM is that it will do away with the database.

But it is not the job loss that really upsets people though, at least if they are not hypocrites. Where after all are the typists, the runners, the compositors, the typesetters, the legions of people in the sorting office? Done away with by computers. Where even are the artisans, the taylors, the book binders, the weavers? Outsourced to sweatshops in Bangladesh and Vietnam.

Here we get back to Whittaker's article. This whole global system of exploitation and environmental destruction is dependent on the vast data processing and storage power of computers. Palantir doesn't exist because Peter Thiel is the Antichrist. Peter Thiel exists because he is the embodiment of what computers were built to do. The reason there is a PC in on every desk and smart phone in every pocket is that IT takes the logic of the production line and expands it into every aspect of our lives. We are all Charlie Chaplin, turning our spanner to the rhythm of the machine.

Chaplin perhaps thought that the modern world was redeemable because we could film it. You might think that it is redeemable because we can talk to each other across continents. I do think that what the opporbium to LLMs reveals is a deep anxiety with the computerisation of our modes of production and of our lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n9ESFJTnHs