I don’t hate AI. That’s what bothers me most about all this I think. LLMs aren’t AI. I’ve been bothered with using the term AI as a catch all for ML for so long now.

LLMs have some form of machine intelligence and pattern matching. However a majority of their output are just compositions of their training data. They aren’t intelligent and any “intelligence” they posses is just ripped from other places. Real people generate the value while other people give the LLM the credit.

They are a tool nothing more and definitely can’t replace any but the most mind numbing jobs.

Not only that but it’s been hyped up by the most annoying and shitty people. It’s destroying the economy, not because it’s replacing jobs but because it’s over inflating the value of a select group of companies. Everyone is scrambling to adopt a technology that doesn’t deliver on its promises. Meaning worse quality everything and what’s worse is that these companies willingly manipulate the public to hide it’s short falls. Decent “thinking” LLM models are incredibly expensive to run and generate very little value. It’s all subsidized. When the real price hits the fan we will all be fucked.

I don’t hate AI. Hell I don’t even particularly hate LLMs. I hate the hype, I hate LLM bros, and I hate the market.