Comment by synicalx
2 years ago
> Of course, we have to be careful not to villainize a neutral tech
This is a very good point IMO. If we're going to chastise LLM's we may as well give servers, switches, routers, fiber-optic cable, and silicone a bollocking as well since that's ultimately what's facilitating all this.
No, those are not comparable. If someone criticises the electric chair, it’s not reasonable to defend it with “if we’re going to chastise the electric chair we may as well give wood, metal, chairs, and electricity a bollocking since that's ultimately what's facilitating all this”.
Things are more than the sum of their parts. If you have a ton of beneficial things which can be cobbled together into one bad detrimental thing, the existence of the latter does not remove the benefits of the former.