@maddy i've never used llms (at least not directly, at this point i'm sure something i've used has a slop machine embedded), but i was interested in running a local model and seeing what it could do when stable diffusion became available

i didn't only because i was lazy and i wasn't that interested in it. never been interested in chatgpt or any of the cloud services because i have a long-standing skepticism of cloud services in general

and i also have longstanding hatred of talking to computers using natural language (predating llms). so llms would never be a technology i'd get into

as i learned more and more about it i quickly started to despise the technology and now i'm doing all i can to never touch it

that said, i don't have any smoke for people who tried it out in the early days when there was a lot of hype and most of the downsides weren't obvious at that point

even for people who used llms more recently, i won't judge as long as they've stopped using them. and i won't judge people who are forced to use them at work but don't use it beyond that