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   ekari (ekari@mementomori.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Nov-2025 07:51:33 JST ekari

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   • tante

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   I think I have three reasons why I don't like or use LLM's.

   1. most likely they are trained with stolen data -> a moral conflict.
   2. the hidden cost of power usage that is swept under the rug -> an environmental worry.
   3. use it or lose it. If I don't tease and use my own brain, what will be left after ten years?

   Therefore I think LLM enthusiasts are immoral CO2 blasters that will become stupider as time goes on.

   My wish for Santa is a quick burst for this bubble and a long AI winter.

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     tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 01-Nov-2025 07:51:34 JST tante

     "An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task?

     All bigger studies we know (even those done by Google for example) show a total lack of meaningful productivity gains, especially when looking at a whole organization.

     (There are few exceptions: Spam generation might see productivity gains for example. Translation services where quality doesn't matter much. But how much of our economy is that?)

     Steve's Place repeated this.