Jessica🏳️🌈one of the core problems with LLMs right now is that the harms apply to everyone even if you don’t use it, it's like radiation; it gets on things, you spread it silently, and it does its damage before you can even tell
the thing that’s really exhausting me lately is that even if as an industry tech had more worker power it probably wouldn’t make a difference here because we’re so split on whether it’s good or bad; the best we might be able to hope for is to ban mandates, but that does little to curb the harms
I don’t think an LLM is going to replace *my* job imminently, but I fear it will cause a vacuum in the industry where juniors used to be honed into good mid-level engineers and seniors. That energy will be absorbed and diffused by LLMs, and in exchange we get no collective benefits, and fail the whole next generation of our peers.
LLMs are a major structural problem and if you need to know how we as a society respond to structural problems I have five long years of global pandemic to show you what the moneyed class think of all that nonsense
and like, yeah, sure, ignore the externalities all you want, and point at lawsuits, or tell me the cruelty is the point, but I can’t look at an LLM making a stupid mistake for the fifth time and see anything but a bomb hitting a school in Iran
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