Jeff JohnsonMar 8

LLM access is relatively cheap now because the LLM vendors are discounting their price at a massive loss, subsidized by VC, in order to get you addicted and to drive as much skilled human labor as possible out of the workforce permanently.

The goal is monopolization, and if they’re successful, you’ll see monopolistic pricing in the future.

Show threadPetra van CronenburgMar 9
@lapcatsoftware Never forget the immense price we all pay for the destruction of climate and drinking water! If we use them or not, the data centers destroy our environment.
Show threadCassandrich
@NatureMC @lapcatsoftware Even worse, they destroy the informed and educated populace on which any hope of meaningful democracy and liberation exists.
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Show threadArthur van der HargMar 9
@dalias @NatureMC @lapcatsoftware My take: this is happening to quickly to succeed. Adoption is too fast. And people are already realising that LLMs are starving the experience pipeline. But there are still plenty of experienced pre-LLM people around to restart it. Had this taken place over 20 years, we would have had a real problem.
Show threadPetra van CronenburgMar 9
@dalias Indeed. I don't know which one is worse, climate change doesn't make a difference whom it kills (the super-rich will be protected some longer). And a worsening with more extremes and catastrophes can also kill democracies ...
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