It’s everywhere. Can’t code for shit? Just use a LLM bro. Can’t create art? Just throw your prompt at the latest slop machine. Too lazy to write anything? We can help with that. Women too stuck up and woke to talk to your nasty self? Guess what, our LLMs will tell your just how special you really are.

Sometimes I just want to go live in a cave.

Do tell, how has it improved since the times that I clearly don’t remember?

I tend to agree with Cory Doctorow in that LLMs are not the amazing breakthrough tech that AI companies have been gaslighting management into thinking they are. This tech should really be thought of more like plugins are - a useful, albeit limited, aid for speeding up some of the more tedious tasks.

Of course, only an idiot would look at the vast piles of money burned and resources wasted for a plugin and think that makes any sense.

I wouldn’t put a fancy and stupidly resource-intensive word guessing game on the same level as those other things.