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Re:LLM Inevitabilism by desumeku on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:14AM (#44570804)
>This increasingly likely future is made all the more infuriating by the annoyances of the current reality of AI. The fact that AI is so presently inescapable despite how many glaring security-affecting flaws it causes, how much it propagates slop in the information commons, and how effectively it emboldens a particularly irksome brand of overconfidence in the VC world is preemptive insult to injury in the lead up a reality where AI will nevertheless control everything.

So basically: "yes, I know AI is actually completely and totally useless and a net negative on the world just like you say it is, but I can imagine that things will suddenly turn into the sci-fi ultraverse for no reason so therefore you're wrong."

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Re:LLM Inevitabilism by atleastoptimal on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @02:41PM (#44574461)
How could you take what I said and conclude that I’m stating that AI is completely useless and a net negative? I bring those issues up to note that the rollout of AI systems have been mired in problems like all new technologies. However even current AI possesses enormous utility in many sectors, and productivity/efficiency gains due to capabilities of the best models, which have no signs of slowing their rate of improvement.

That you rushed to straw man my point so hyperbolically supports my view that this frequent insistence I see claiming that AI is a worthless scam despite all the evidence to the contrary is emotionally motivated.

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