The one bright spot of LLMs is that we've learned exactly how morally and creatively bankrupt this industry is, and how fast people are willing to throw away everything they said they cared about for decades - craft, understanding, efficiency, detail, all of it - just to cosplay competence and bandwagon their way to groupthink targets they don't even realize were made up to manipulate them.

Christ it's embarassing.

@europlus @davidgerard That's the feeling I get from a lot of discussions of AI ethics which end on something like

"You should consider these factors carefully before deciding whether to use an LLM."

"OK, I've considered them and I've chosen not to use an LLM."

"Oh. We didn't actually expect anyone to take that option."

Listen: I care about security and don't want people running malware on their phones, but everybody's threat model is different.

If you care about security and privacy, you should also care about giving people the option to pick what security means for THEM personally.

There aren't a ton of options for degoogled android phones out there for people that don't live in China, which means that the vast majority of people are essentially being forced into this.