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The sad part is
LLMs have niche use cases. They are great at summarizing text (“hallucinations” are a problem with an engineering fix). Other models are great at stuff like image recognition, pattern matching, optimization of data structures or the like. There are real, useful applications for this technology that could save actual humans actual time and effort.
But there’s no money in that; so instead they market their mechanical Turk, built with stolen source material, as a replacement for things people do. every middle manger thinks they’re going to save the company and get promoted to CEO for optimizing the workforce out of the job, and the demand allows big tech to finally steal personal computing from society as a whole by buying up literally all the components for decades. Building and using a personal computer is going to become lost knowledge by the time the supply settles from this heist; there won’t BE a market for PCs by then.
Seriously you cannot go to a conference about enterprise software in 2026 without every talk being something AI related. It’s honestly bonkers anyone would put this much trust in another company to essentially run their business. It’s like the WORLD is hallucinating.
You’ve seen what connectivity has already done to some people…imagine what it’ll be like when there is ENTIRELY no control…
No open source, no piracy, no porn, no freedom to discuss anything even slightly taboo on message boards, no safe spaces for LGBTQIA+, or bloc; no criticizing the government, and you pay &59.99 per month or you lose all your pictures of your kid, your loan paperwork, and your tax documents, since local storage just isn’t sold anymore. Hard drives? You mean like a record player? Only hipsters have those! No one who’s serious stores things locally! We’re too busy to deal with the hassle of plugging in devices or making backups, that’s for luddites.
God help you if they decide to exclude you from the banking system.
LLMs absolutely have their uses. Summarise X. I've thrown it a list of client sites and told it to group them in lots of five based by geographical proximity when planning the logistics for a rollout. I've also literally watched my boss get driven almost to a stroke trying to "troubleshoot" something using AI and failing miserably because LLMs don't think. They're literally incapable of saying "Hey, what if you just click on that menu and do that instead" (yeah I fixed it in five minutes and told him LLMs aren't for that dude, don't do that.)
but, for my original point: Google is already fucking up the knowledge base. You can try and search something and you will literally have the answer obscured, even using an alternate search if they rely on aggregates of other engines. Unless you use google's AI summaries. Because they want to present as the authority, the knowledge source and that is actively fucking dangerous, not to mention the sheer fucking audacity of obscuring knowledge sources they don't even fucking own just so they can pretend they have that information.