a) Doesn’t appear in any published literature

You say this like Shakespeare wrote about autism.

b) Appears to have been coined in the last decade in a magazine article whose author has a degree from a non-accredited college.

What? Appears based on what? Does something that happened in the last decade become invalidated for some reason?

I identify with that

How many of you are responding to this post from your cell phone?

How many people are carrying cell phones around?

It doesn’t look like it.

Trump isn’t a fentanyl addict. He’s literally the only person who was making threats about invading Greenland. Trump is disgusting; but he’s not a fentanyl addict. Do not put such a shame on fentanyl addicts by comparing them to him.

Mock the US for being dumb… that’s fair. Fentanyl addicts are typically victims of the system though. You’re mocking the wrong part.

Until these past few weeks, I had the impression that places outside of the US were more informed than the MAGA voters in the US. You’re yet another example of why I was wrong.

Next step is to make sure only the workers are shareholders.

It’s getting more and more absurd.

“We can’t think of a good use for this parasite outside of our industry.”

Yea… cops being detained by ICE, cops fighting ICE, citizens being shot, protests in every major city… “nothing happening at all.”

Ya, you’re probably right

Unfortunately, that’s their only job, to make the number go up.

It’s being shoved down everyone’s throats for the same reasons it was shoved down everyone’s throats 6 years ago… they need to train this shit so they can replace everyone.

It has the economics of a bubble, is making or computing extremely expensive and in most cases degrades my experience. Obviously they are running into a wall.

This screams fraud more than anything to me. It feels more like Enron than pets.com but maybe it’s a bubble. I won’t argue with you there. The rest of this statement, I agree with.

They will however not lead to AGI.

I’m not confident about that. How are you confident about that? I’m also not saying you’re wrong… but I don’t think you know this.

And we’re not even talking about how there are people in jail for a fraction of the piracy these companies committed out that they used peoples private data to train these models. Based on how IP law is wielded against people we should get a payout for every single time an LLM is queried.

Fully agree with you.

I’m going to express a perspective that goes against a lot of the Lemmy hive-mind, so I’m sure I’ll be downvoted, but here goes anyway cause I don’t give no fucks about downvotes…

When I first heard about LLMs (around 2021 I think), I was pretty neutral on it. “Meh, sounds like some annoying bullshit to piss off customers and attempt to take call-center jobs away. Probably going to flop…” was the perspective I had around the time of my first introduction.

Around 2022 or 2023, the place I was working at the time started heavily pushing people to use it. I was a Cloud Engineer at the time. There wasn’t a lot of justification as to “why” we should be using it, other than, “it’ll make things easier.” Because of my org pushing large numbers of engineers and developers into using something without demonstrating an actual benefit, or reason why it will help immediately caused my brain to signal red flags and become suspicious of it. My neutrality shifted into an ANTI-AI sentiment.

By the end of 2023 (or so), I was pretty vehemently against AI. I don’t need to articulate on that too much, we all know the reasons why. Towards the end of last year, I found myself in a weird spot of starting a business and didn’t know wtf I was doing, at all. That was the first time that I had a good experience with using Claude. It guided me through the process of creating an LLC, and a bunch of other bullshit that’s associated with that. I’ve had a few good experiences with it for the past few months… it’s a lot better than it was.

At this point, I’ve come to the conclusion that a large problem with AI was what happened in (what I’m calling) the early days (2020-2021), of pushing people to adopt some bullshit that was wholly unsubstantiated, and quite frankly sucked. The expectation for a “boom” was greatly miscalculated, and it still fucking is.

If companies were starting to push people to use it for the first time in 2025, I think we’d be having a much different conversation about AI / LLMs in 2026. I think it has some viable uses, and it does some of the technical aspects of my role substantially faster than I can do them. However, my concerns around the economic, environmental, and political implications of AI still have me maintaining a perspective that it’s more trouble than it’s worth. In short, “AI isn’t all bad on it’s own… the system we’re trying to add AI to is already fucked and AI is making it worse.”

I really don’t understand what’s stopping any of these revolutionary, non-Americans from coming over and taking matters into their own hands. The prevailing belief seems to be that everybody on the west coast, north east, and in the blue states should just be quitting their jobs, sacrificing their healthcare and their homes, driving 5 days to DC, and getting themselves into situations they’ll be KOS.

May as well just make the tariffs 4000%.

Do it pussy.

Sounds like you’re describing the whole “every accusation is a confession…” projection shit that the GOP has been doing for 40 years.

We know who Q is. It’s Ron Watkins.

It’s not just insane for him… pretty much all of the political power of the Middle East is also in those files. It has a reach that goes beyond borders of the US so they’re actually scared about what will happen when Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Muhammad bin Nayef, Netanyahu, etc all show up in pictures and financial records.