this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
310 points (99.1% liked)
simpsonsshitposting
4341 readers
645 users here now
I just think they're neat!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This reeks of desperation. Almost as if, AGI claims have always been bullshit. Now, they are just scrambling to find a use case.
The only true use case I've found for LLMs is generating acceptable bullshit.
When I needed to let a vendor know that we were not going to renew the contract, I didn't want to have to use my brain power to come up with the business-speak version of "piss off", so I had copilot write the first draft.
It's excellent at bullshit. I'm not sure they can recoup their investment with that. Maybe if they start replacing all the C-suite folks with AI across all industries, it could make a small dent.
They're useful for parsing large documents quickly. I upload a manual for something I'm unfamiliar with and troubleshoot with it.
Doesn't replace me because you still have to know when it's full of shit but it's great for skipping the first 80% of a task.
I like it but I would never pay what it actually takes to run the thing
The only useful thing I've seen come out is my dm being able to put his ideas into fruition quicker and on the fly, everything else has pretty questionable utility from what I've seen
That's great! How much is he paying for that? 'Cause the AI industry needs to recoup a few billion dollars, and every little bit helps.
A few billion dollars? They need to make 2 trillion dollars to make a profit. That's bigger than most economies.
Trust me, I never said it was worth the cost to society lol
I think it has a lot more utility than a lot of people here give it credit for. It's just very easily misused.
Edit: I certainly wouldn't want it to be my 'OS'
LLMs are great at retrieving information while taking a natural language query and synthesizing a natural language response. In essence, it is a glorified search engine, that is better than keyword-based search, but not as great /revolutionary as advertised. So, yes, it has utility. But, people like Altman and most other silicon valley execs had to overhype the damn thing because they only care about pumping their stocks.
Of course, needs to factor in the cost of power, infrastructure and environmental destruction. That depends on the how did LLMs scale with rise in these inputs? But, everyone is more concerned with outspending everyone else, in hopes that they will magically reach Narnia (I mean, AGI), but it might as well be Narnia. The result: a fucking bubble.
If they had kept their and everyone else's expectations in check, this would not have happened. But, hey, line must go up, at any cost.
some places with the datacenters have seen thier electricity bill increased as a result.
Imagine people paying for the 'profit' of the corporations. Socialism for me, capitalism for thee.
Now I get why they can't come out of the closet
Haha they don't have even have stocks! They may be legally barred from going public and nobody will want to but them, in which case they'll be fucked (but Altman will walk away with bags full)
they are know they are losing money, nvidia investing 100billion seems like a stopgap measure.
nvidia is investing 100 billion in OpenAI so that OpenAI can spend it all on GPUs from nvidia. Sounds like a totally healthy industry