Mastodawn

I sometimes wish I cared little enough about the ethical implications of the things I use to not hate everything LLMs represent right now. It feels like my world view is constantly under siege... Under siege by people with more money than god, using this technology to make the biggest attempt at enclosing mental commons I've seen in my lifetime. Under siege by people who never look further than the next shiny toy, seemingly ignoring the damage that using that toy, or even just tolerating that toy, has on the world.

It's just making me very tired...

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Andrew France

@ainmosni feel exactly the same here. I can list out all the costs of LLMs to good smart friends only to hear back "yeah, but, it writes emails for me faster without mistakes".
Or how the majority of developers I speak to are so enthused 🤩 about it, when all I can see is the stolen work and future harms slowly coming to fruition.

I guess this is how environmentalists have felt since the 80s. Almost no one really cares about abstract concepts enough to not do the bad things.

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Daniël Franke

Mar 13

@Odaeus I'm not convinced the majority of developers are so enthused, but definitely more than in other places. I think there's a third who are big proponents, a third who might or might not like it but have no strong feelings outside of that, and a third who abhor it.