Saying "nobody should be forced to use LLMs" is like saying "if you don't like tobacco, don't smoke it" on airplane where people are smoking tobacco.
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No, legit, asbestos is a fucking miracle material, it was just used stupidly/excessively. It isn't a case of good enough, you know?
Almost entirely chemically inert, biologically inert, non-conductive, insulative, geologic timescale long-lasting/stable, flame-proof, mechanically strengthens materials...
It never should have been user-facing as anything but an NFOB, and even then used only as necessary.
(I used to do Asbestos abatement)
@Brett_E_Carlock Thank you for the explainer, although I feel like it further my point: people are currently mesmerized by AI and its capabilities in a similar way you describe asbestos as a miracle. Where the comparison ends though is that for all its benefits, nobody has ever claimed asbestos to be sentient or warned about it taking over the world.
I’m pretty sure a small group of people were appalled at the wide spread of asbestos at the time with the same concern as you over the user-facing part, and I feel kindred with these people now.
@Tock See also: "secondhand surveillance" https://www.offrecordzones.org/
Discussing hypothetical "reasonable & ethical" LLM usage only feeds into slopaganda narratives and fundamentally misunderstands the problem. The only way some comparable technology might be "reasonable & ethical" is if the model was not Large, but then you're not talking about a Large Language Model.
In a world where the biggest companies in the world are getting away with not even respecting the most basic copyright license requirement of attribution, imagine thinking that the solution is a new copyright license.
Posters on random street poles are exhibiting stronger leadership than Slopware Freedom Conservancy.
When they posted their Hot Take About AI (https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html), I thought it was misguided but didn't really have the bandwidth to care. But after seeing bkuhn harass someone over criticism, I'm disgusted with the organization.
@be "AI is the new smoking." This is a fair take.