Re:Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good...
by ben_w on Monday June 09, 2025 @11:30AM
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I'm saying the category of things LLMs do is *significantly broader* than misinformation, and not *limited to* misinformation.
Even within the domain of "how can this go horribly wrong?", even limited to assistance rather than full automation, and even while constrained to the truth, there's a lot of business value (and in at least some of those cases, a lot of potential harm) simply due to their capacity to automate tasks up to the level of a student or a graduate.
But for businesses? The only reason that the opportunity isn't already "net cost (pay + insurance + employer-paid taxes) of every junior desk job on the planet" is that they're competing with each other and the free models are kinda OK, so the price they can charge is already racing to no profit.
Even within the domain of "how can this go horribly wrong?", even limited to assistance rather than full automation, and even while constrained to the truth, there's a lot of business value (and in at least some of those cases, a lot of potential harm) simply due to their capacity to automate tasks up to the level of a student or a graduate.
But for businesses? The only reason that the opportunity isn't already "net cost (pay + insurance + employer-paid taxes) of every junior desk job on the planet" is that they're competing with each other and the free models are kinda OK, so the price they can charge is already racing to no profit.