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Lockal | 6 months ago

This is like an extension for https://xkcd.com/1289/ - it works for everything: internet, phones, electricity, tv, etc:

1) Because the thing you are talking about is just rebranded thing that existed 20 years before

2) Because boosters are egocentric drug addicts, pederasts, druglords with crypto stashes, raped their sister, or everything altogether

3) Because it failed to solve MY task

4) Because it can't be more important than a sunshine

5) Because it attacks my intellectual property

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AstralStorm|6 months ago

1) What. How do you extend that?

2) Kind of hard to argue that for electricity and phones. Internet, maybe because it was a bunch of academics. TV was boosted by big business.

3) It fails to solve any task, in particular LLMs. You're tricked into doing the work instead. Other kinds of machine learning are useful and do solve tasks. TV also didn't exist to solve a task, at least it was honest about it. Phones solve the task they were meant to, as did the internet until it got enshittened. (Still does, but worse.)

4) whut.

5) It actually steals information. All the other tech didn't.