Post by @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social 1 hr. ago

My thoughts on #LLM :

1. I can see useful, ethical use cases for small-scale, specially-trained #LLM systems.
2. However, none of the big #AI companies - #Antropic, #OpenAI, #SpaceX , #Amazon, #Microsoft and so forth - are acting in an even remotely ethical manner when it comes to training their LLM systems.
3. Furthermore, I _really_ don't see the trillion dollar business case for "Let's scrape every website on the Internet a thousand times per month in the hopes of finding new data!"
4. That scraping is also pissing me off personally since I had to upgrade my hosting plan _twice_ and _still_ get the occasional outage from all that scraper bot traffic.
5. Therefore, I will not use any of the AI models by the current crop of corporate overlords.
6. Instead, I will wait until the #AIBubble inevitably pops and the world economy comes crashing down.
7. And after this happens, then _maybe_ there will be something worth using after we have sifted through the ashes.

#aibubble #antropic #spacex #amazon #microsoft #openai #llm #ai

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mahadevank

@mahadevank@mastodon.social 15 min. ago

@juergen_hubert

My personal experience has been that LLMs can be used for non-essential tasks.

The most productive use-case for me has been to use it to generate small scripts - vim plugins, shell scripts etc. to improve my workflow.

In similar ways, it has been useful for me to refine my posts. A recent example was where I used the word "mass psychosis" but the LLM was helpful in pin-pointing that "shared beliefs" was a more accurate phrase for my posts.

Urwumpe

@urwumpe@hessen.social 43 min. ago

@juergen_hubert I have already problems seeing any business case for them, aside of Ponzi schemes. Its very hard to design a system that is really effective and efficient for its purpose. A co-worker has vibe-coded a great working prototype for a service, but I already see many parts there that classic software development would have done better in the same time with less resource consumption.

Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social 40 min. ago

@urwumpe

My own would be: "Custom search engine for ancient file archives".

Urwumpe

@urwumpe@hessen.social 30 min. ago

@juergen_hubert Yes that is something where GenAI works great. But that doesn't mean the whole application requires AI or that the best solution for the deficiencies of LLMs is to use more of them. Also AI agents require such a bunch of supervision in an enterprise context, its not easy to make them cost effective.

Roy -- the dull one

@oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social 56 min. ago

@juergen_hubert

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