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2026-02-21 12:08 UTC

@onekind@beige.party You did, indeed, say "it's one of the very few good things about LLMs", not that LLMs as a whole are good. But I disagree: it's not a good thing about LLMs. It's the opposite of a solution to the problem; it makes the problem worse. Even if LLMs aided communication, they do so at the cost of increased dependency on US tech corporations (or, at best, non-US tech corporations). And I don't agree even that they do aid communication. Inserting a text generator in between a writer and a reader is the opposite of communication. (And I didn't put words in your mouth.)

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@onekind@beige.party 2026-02-21 12:14

@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io You wrote 'LLMs aren’t a socialist solution in the slightest,' negating something I never claimed, and that's putting words in my mouth. Yet again an 'if' that concedes my point only to argue things *should* be otherwise. Yes they should, but they are not anywhere near close to being that way. You're missing something important in your critique of LLMs: there are thousands of them, some are open source, many will run on your own hardware, and many can be prompted regarding tone and style. There is nothing inherently American or even capitalist about GPT or LLMs per se. The tech can be used in prosocial and pro-socialist ways, on multiple sides of struggle.

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