[srveale]

> The obsession with AI (and other vapourware) in our industry ... fuelling the hard-right — who coincidentally are very much using AI.

Is it useless or not? If it's vapourware, why would you care if the other side uses it? If the far right is using it successfully, then by definition it is not vapourware, right?

[mariusor]

Because the output from LLMs drowns everything else. So if people use it to drown actual discussions yes, it's useful for that. Everyone else though, has to suffer.

[zamadatix]

I think that's aligns with what GP is saying: if one is going to say people are using it, even if for things you don't like, then choosing to call it vapourware in the same paragraph is a confusing use of the term.

In a charitable reading I think the author was meaning something along the lines of "fails to be as useful as made to sound on things I think are worth valuing but very useful for things I think are slop" but chose a different meaning term by mistake.

[Apreche]

Why should I care if someone else builds and uses the torment nexus?

Because I’m among those being tormented!

[srveale]

I think you misinterpreted my comment as "LLMs are good" which is a different conversation.

My point is: you can't say LLMs are a dangerous tool and call them vapourware at the same time. It's a contradiction in terms.