Post B0mAIoGuLojZkLgCcS by alda@topspicy.social
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 (DIR) Post #B0lxjW9uVGcBz8oNlo by baldur@toot.cafe
       2025-11-30T10:46:16Z
       
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       “AI sceptics” who work on policy and education continue to overestimate the utility of LLMs—portraying it as a potential revolution even as they warn against overhype—simply because they can’t see that generating seemingly coherent text has very little economic value
       
 (DIR) Post #B0lxjX8AtCox030Vhg by baldur@toot.cafe
       2025-11-30T10:46:17Z
       
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       LLMs are not automation. That would have economic value. The generated text artefacts look coherent and we, as a society, don’t even value the coherent kind. We underpay most forms of writing. Even code has no inherent value (see open source) outside of the associated integration and expertise
       
 (DIR) Post #B0lxjXujydfXQfjIP2 by baldur@toot.cafe
       2025-11-30T10:46:17Z
       
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       Between diffusion models and LLMs, tech has inflated a trillion dollar bubble around automating activities that have immense social and cultural capital—writing, art, photography—but little actual capital. It’s harmful to education, culture, and society with minimal overall benefit
       
 (DIR) Post #B0lxjZ0nta74plZeUa by baldur@toot.cafe
       2025-11-30T10:46:17Z
       
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       More and more, generative models are looking like productivity tobacco. Promoted by biased research, it’s addictive, harmful, and the little benefit it has (nicotine is a somewhat effective ADHD drug, for example) cannot outweigh the fact that it’s hurting us all, directly and indirectly. This shit is already turning out to be one of the most harmful tech innovations of the 21st century. It needs to be regulated at least as much as tobacco, if not banned outright from most economic spheres
       
 (DIR) Post #B0lxja1C9c1JxGlTk0 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-11-30T13:32:57Z
       
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       @baldur But Baldur, then how will our billionaires become trillionaires? Why do you hate freedom?
       
 (DIR) Post #B0lxjdIJyOVC7FnhLs by baldur@toot.cafe
       2025-11-30T10:46:17Z
       
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       But, unfortunately I don’t see that happening. If we’re lucky, a bubble pop will clear it out of education and the economy, but if we’re unlucky, governments in charge will use public funds to try and rebuild after LLMs with more LLMs, baking this shit into the foundation of our economy for a generation
       
 (DIR) Post #B0mAIoGuLojZkLgCcS by alda@topspicy.social
       2025-11-30T15:53:47Z
       
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       @aral @baldur At best this will make millionaires out of a lot of billionaires. But at a huge cost.