• @raspberriesareyummy
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    25 hours ago

    I’m generally ok with people using LLMs to make their lives easier, because why not?

    Because 1) it adds to killing our climate and 2) it increases dependencies on western oligarchs / technocrats who are generally horrible people and enemies of the public.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 hours ago

      I agree, but the crux of my post is that it doesn’t have to be that way - it’s not inherent to the training and use of LLMs.

      I think your second point is what makes the first point worse - this is happening at an industrial scale, with the only concern being profit. We pay technocrats for the use of their services, and they use that money to train more models without a care for the deviation it causes.

      I think a lot of the harm caused by model training can be forgiven if the models were used for the betterment of quality of life of the masses, but they’re not, they’re mainly used to enrich technocrats and business owners at any expense.