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Hot take, maybe? LLMs and AI are not inherently bad. It really comes down to:

The companies that run them and how they act.

The insane impact that blind trust has on multiple financial markets.

The horrible environmental impact of unchecked, unregulated growth with minimal thought put into solutions.

Hallucination is also a bad side effect but I don't really consider that a real downside as long as you know how to use the tool (and recognize that it is a tool in the first place).
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Kayne 2w ago

AI is a tool.

I can use a hammer to frame a house, I can also use it to kill people.

A company can clear cut an entire forest for timbre to make handles for hammers.

Another company could have regenerative policies.

An individual can sustainably harvest timbre themselves for making handles.

Should we blame hammers and shovels when a company clear cuts a forest to make handles for tools?

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Kayne 2w ago

The printing press made scribes unemployed.

The camera made portrait painters unemployed.

The printing press was used by kings and churches to spread propaganda and brainwash people just like the scribes before it.

Over time, it became more and more accessible.

What matters is who has access to the tools and how they use them