Post #3732966

2026-06-20 13:05 UTC

But for those who *do* believe that generative AI should be resisted and fought, I think there also needs to be something better to meet the need that generative AI is now meeting for some people, however badly it may be doing so.

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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-06-20 22:40

@matt@toot.cafe one way to think about this is that LLMs are a bad tool that solves problems thousands of times more inefficiently than other mechanisms. It has the appearance of efficiency for two reasons: theft and subsidy. If LLM vendors succeed, the training data will become hopelessly polluted and the theft will no longer be tenable; frontier model vendors will need to pay people to produce untainted data. The subsidies will also run out (and they are already), once the VC musical chairs stops.

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@cford@toot.thoughtworks.com 2026-06-21 09:52

@matt@toot.cafe Anything that sufficiently embeds itself in the economy will find good and bad use cases associated with it. Once we have a car-oriented society, there will be cases both of lives saved by someone being driven to the hospital and others where someone's dog got run over. I agree we should look at the good and the bad, but adding up individual cases is quite hard.

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