Joe Brockmeier

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116324703722433365

This is a preview of the future. A number of people have already pointed out the obvious parallel between getting people hooked on drugs and getting hooked on using LLMs... it seems we're seeing it play out faster than I'd have expected.

Mar 31 at 5:21pmWeb
Show threadLarvitz  1d ago
@jzb AI inference is expensive, both financially and energetically. A lot of platforms are masking that by subsidizing usage to chase growth. But that only works for so long: eventually the VC money slows, investors want revenue, prices rise, and limits get stricter.
Show threadJoe Brockmeier1d ago
@Larvitz Yup. So growing a dependence on those tools is, IMNSHO, unwise even if you discount all of the other (many) ethical, social, cognitive, environmental, legal, and technical objections.
Show threadLarvitz  1d ago
@jzb I use a small and open model from France (Ministral) on my own laptop. For surprisingly many repetitive tasks (pattern recognition in files, text redaction), that’s quite good. Without depending on a cloud, without a subscription and without exfiltrating my data.
Show threadJoe Brockmeier1d ago
@Larvitz yeah, that’s a different matter; I’m really just talking about being dependent on a service.
Show threadClemens1d ago
@jzb Anybody who bothers looking up can see the #enshittification at the horizon. Clearly, some people don't want you to look up. #DontLookUp
Show threadNEPŘÁTELSKÉ EMOCE 🇺🇦🇨🇿1d ago
@jzb thank you but until claude manages to dissolve an ego and turn me into a stone laying still for three hundred years i'm staying with drugs
Show threadJoe Brockmeier1d ago
@lkundrak I'd like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs...