Comment by poszlem

I keep thinking about the TechnoCore from Dan Simmons' Hyperion, where the AIs were serving humans but secretly that was a parasitic relation, where they've been secretly using human brains as distributed processing nodes, essentially harvesting humanity's neural activity for their own computational needs without anyone's knowledge.

I know this is SF, but to me working with those LLMs feels more and more like that, and the atrophy part is real. Not that the model is literally using our brains as compute, but the relationship can become lopsided.