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Comment by usefulposter

3 days ago

No.

"Whether we like it or not" is LLM inevitabilism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567857

Yes.

  >Argument By Adding -ism To The End Of A Word

Counterpoint: LLMs are inevitable.

Can't put that genie back in the bottle, no matter how much the powers-that-be may wish. Such is the nature of (technological) genies.

The only way to 'stop' LLMs is to invent something better.

  • depends if the cost of training can be recouped (with profit) from the proceeds of usage. Plenty of inventions prove themselves to be uneconomic.