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."
@Joshsharp Today I needed a network diagram. I never liked drawing on a computer. It is a mindless and annoying task.
Instead, I drew it roughly on paper. Then took a picture, uploaded it to Gemini, and told Gemini to make it look neat and professional. What I got back was done after one spelling correction.
What are the moral and ethical implications of that? It definitely did work from a pragmatic perspective.
@mike805 for starters, there are environmental aspects (e.g. absurdly high energy and water use for training and running), bad working conditions for 3rd world training supervisors, and the fact that these models are in large parts based on content made by people who never consented to their works being used to create these services.
By the way, solutions for your use case have been around for years before the rise of "AI" and don't have those problems.
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