Can we coin a fallacy name for the "just use a newer model" thing that LLM addicts subscribe to?
It's such a weird pattern. "Oh, you're using Sloppo F, that's old and no good, you should use Sloppo G". But in 6 months, it's "Sloppo G is no good, try Sloppo H". A model is only good if it's new, apparently!
There are elements here of:
- Lack of self awareness
- Failure to observe patterns over time
- Techno-optimism
- Straight up gambling ("the next hand will be better")
The best name I can come up with is the "Latest Model Fallacy". Which is pretty boring. Got anything punchier?
In the present context, always reaching for more training data and models with more tunable weights is an example of this bias in action, seems to me.