@maddy oh same here! I think its good to admit that a lot of us had high hopes for this tech. I'm sickened with who is bankrolling it and what they use it for, but I think the tech itself is still really impressive.

A friend of mine once said that the problem is that it creates a sort of mental picket line. Cross the line and you're a scab -- you're taking business away from writers and artists and junior developers. But like... what I actually want isn't for those people to have jobs -- what I want is for them to have their needs met, and a job is just currently a necessary part of that goal. If we had UBI then I think the picket line would be a different story.

the environmental impact thing is still a problem. slop is bad for intersectional reasons.

edit: while I'm talking about LLMs, I want to add that, as far as I understand it, ChatGPT is a fairly bog-standard chatbot wrapped around a kickass search engine, and I'm really pissed about it -- they should just give us that search engine directly!!! I don't want the slop but if they just sold the "thousands of manually categorized pages" part as its own service that would be rad!