Comment by perching_aix
5 hours ago
This is like all the usual anti-LLM talking points and sentiments fused together.
Doesn't it get boring?
I like using these models a lot more than I stand hearing people talk about them, pro or contra. Just slop about slop. And the discussions being artisanal slop really doesn't make them any better.
Every time I hear some variation of bullshitting or plagiarizing machines, my eyes roll over. Do these people think they're actually onto something? I've been seeing these talking points for literal years. For people who complain about no original thoughts, these sure are some tired ones.
If I have to suffer "look at this busted ass thing I slopped out with AI" a few times a week, you all have to suffer grouchy "AI bad" a few times a week. Fair is fair.
Just this week I was baited into joining two meetings about "AI good". Absolutely zero substance throughout each, of course.
They somehow managed to stretch out like 3 sentences worth of sentiment to a whole hour, interspersing brainwash about how good AI is along the way. It was like watching someone try to hit a word limit in real time. They always made it feel like we're just about to hit a substantive bit too, only for that to never come.
It may be fair (to the sentiments) in that there's balance, but good lord, the end result is incessant all around (and thus unfair to the people exposed).
Why do you insist on reading and commenting on these articles that bore you so much?
Oh I don't know, maybe because I like to give dissenting takes a chance? Because from time to time they do make some new, decent points, or at least interesting ones? You know, basic intellectual rigor?
Do you imagine me being a clairvoyant by the way, or how do you expect me to know a post is of low quality before I read it or at least skim it?
This one ended up being a part of the vast majority that doesn't offer much of anything. It's a redundant rehash of all the usual rubbish anyone can come across any day. Left a comment about this stating so. Big deal.
Because saying "this is boring, let's stop talking about it" is an opinion worthwhile of expression.
Oppressors don't like people talking about their oppression
Go figure
"These arguments may be correct but they aren't novel" ??
I don't think calling AI a bullshit machine is correct. In spirit.
I'm earnestly curious why not.
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Oh, well you should have said that then.
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Yeah, it gets really boring. Whenever I see "slot machines" or "bullshit machines" or whatever, I just ignore the comment and move on, because it signals that it's someone in such deep denial that they've turned their brain off.
I'd much rather read articles about what LLMs can/can't do, or stuff people have built with LLMs, than read how everything LLMs touch turns to shit.
Its usual gibberish that tries to throw many darts and see what sticks. Oh LLM's steal other people's work? Check. Oh LLM's cause ecological damage? Check. Oh LLM's hallucinate? Check.
When you see a pattern like this, you know that its not coming from any place of truth but rather ideology
My personal red flag for this is the scare quoting of AI, and the super try-hard categorization work that people perform to try and discredit LLMs.
It takes approximately 1 min to find out that machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, both having existed for about half a century now. This basic historical fact is also taught on AI 101 courses across the globe for compsci students.
Yet here we are, people portraying it as some sort of cheap sales trick. Reminds me when I discussed quantum dots with a friend, which he was very enthusiastic to quickly file under "yet another bullshit with quantum in its name" before finally taking the time to understand that the "quantum" bit is not a marketing gimmick. Except in this case, people are a million times more inclined to willfully propagate this. Genuinely so tiresome.
I think it’s just anxiety because to internalise that it is actually so good is a bit hard for some