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2026-06-10 09:56 UTC
@troed@swecyb.com I am a developer and I do believe LLMs are useful when used correctly, mostly when you still understand what you are doing with it.
The discomfort I'm having with LLMs is rather on the political and societal aspect. Big tech companies want us to use it for any purpose, all the time, and push to replace fully functional workflows with disfunctional, error-prone chatbots. There is economic pressure (they want to make money from it, and from us), disconnected from any goal to help people.
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@zerkman@pouet.chapril.org 2026-06-10 10:06
@troed@swecyb.com Not to mention the catastrophic environmental consequences, energy consumption, the strain of online scraping, the shortages on RAM and other components, etc. I've been using "small LLM models" that run locally on my PC. Even though their execution use far less resources than the big online models, their training did involve such big models in the first place (cf. model distillation), so they are not clean either. But all of this is even not my first concern about LLMs.