"we have inconvenienced our end user for the purpose of begging for data, and we will assume that whatever we collect was given in good faith" is an absolutely wild opinion to hold in this year of our lord 2025.
Powerful people feeding that data into an AI in order to outsource decision-making is both predictable and insane. We are about to enter an epic era of rake-stepping.
What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
This made me throw up in my mouth a little.