Which case is 100% FOSS and which one is a proprietary obfuscationware? Which case has been heared by you just because it is good and which case has been heared by you just because some adware? Which case is from human to human and which one is from alien for hunter (or from hunters for aliens)? Which case has been made to make the humanship rich and which one has been made to make the maker rich?
Sad you can even compare one of our culture's cornerstones and one of the last sources of freedom with something harmful on multiple levels made with manufacturing user's (used's?) consent to be your supervisor. I have nothing to say for those who are OK with their watchers in their panopticum.
There is nothing inherently bad about LLMs, and there is nothing inherently good about blockchains. What matters is how the technology ends up being used. I thought it would be obvious to someone who loves one of these modern technologies enough as to think that it's a "cultural cornerstone" (what, like music or something?). There are local, non-megacorp LLMs, ones that are put to niche, but acceptable uses, just like there are blockchains that are created solely for hosting useless cryptocurrencies whose sole purpose is shuffling around money and hosting a pump-and-dump.
What the parent comment is ridiculing isn't the "best case use scenarios" that proponents see with sparkles in their eyes. It's the myopic focus of the tech industry on the big new thing, and the insane obsession with stuffing the big new thing into absolutely everything. It doesn't even matter if you use the big new thing, you just need to seem relevant enough to it for investors to start buying in. If today we're getting "AI-powered" vacuum cleaners, 8 years ago you'd have a blockchain-powered vacuum cleaner. (Maybe to a lesser extent, because the hype on that never reached the heights that AI is reaching today - but the point is clear either way).
Which one is which?
Which case is 100% FOSS and which one is a proprietary obfuscationware? Which case has been heared by you just because it is good and which case has been heared by you just because some adware? Which case is from human to human and which one is from alien for hunter (or from hunters for aliens)? Which case has been made to make the humanship rich and which one has been made to make the maker rich?
Sad you can even compare one of our culture's cornerstones and one of the last sources of freedom with something harmful on multiple levels made with manufacturing user's (used's?) consent to be your supervisor. I have nothing to say for those who are OK with their watchers in their panopticum.
There is nothing inherently bad about LLMs, and there is nothing inherently good about blockchains. What matters is how the technology ends up being used. I thought it would be obvious to someone who loves one of these modern technologies enough as to think that it's a "cultural cornerstone" (what, like music or something?). There are local, non-megacorp LLMs, ones that are put to niche, but acceptable uses, just like there are blockchains that are created solely for hosting useless cryptocurrencies whose sole purpose is shuffling around money and hosting a pump-and-dump.
What the parent comment is ridiculing isn't the "best case use scenarios" that proponents see with sparkles in their eyes. It's the myopic focus of the tech industry on the big new thing, and the insane obsession with stuffing the big new thing into absolutely everything. It doesn't even matter if you use the big new thing, you just need to seem relevant enough to it for investors to start buying in. If today we're getting "AI-powered" vacuum cleaners, 8 years ago you'd have a blockchain-powered vacuum cleaner. (Maybe to a lesser extent, because the hype on that never reached the heights that AI is reaching today - but the point is clear either way).
But which one is which?