Mastodawn

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

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fn0rd

@Joshsharp This is almost word for word what my boss told me today, except replace "I'm interested in" with "you better start".
Part of why this tactic is successful (certainly in my case) is that the job market makes "screw you then, I quit" not a viable alternative.

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josh's harp 17h ago

@fn0rd that sucks. Definitely seems hard to avoid at the moment, but I hope that it won't be too long before the bubble collapses and it's a much easier proposition to find a less shitty job.