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"But the LLMs won't just go away, right?"
Says who? The technology is ecologically and economically unsustainable. The people who are most enthusiastic about the slop machines are those who are trying to extract money by building or using them. The rest of us has to deal with the fallout somehow while others reap the benefits (in fictional valuations, not actual profits, mind you).
The technology is a failure. What is keeping it alive is tech bro fanaticism paired
with capitalist sociopathy.
@r_alb
To quote @davidgerard
If someone says “AI is here to stay,” nail them down on what the precise claim is they’re making. Details. Numbers. What do you mean by being here? What would failure mean? Get them to make their claim properly.
I mean, they won’t answer. They never answer. They never had a claim in mind. They were just making promotional mouth noises.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/ai-is-here-to-stay-is-it-though-what-do-you-mean-stay/
@dzwiedziu @r_alb @davidgerard “AI is here to stay.” Yeah, so is Covid.
@wendynather @dzwiedziu @r_alb so is herpes, and now apparently we have a form that evangelises AI
@dzwiedziu @r_alb @davidgerard Small open source models people can run locally on their own machines, the kinds that don't need any external compute at all, running on a modest GPU like the ones you can find in any PC, aren't going to vanish.
@LordCaramac @dzwiedziu @r_alb you fail at reading the article
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