> Both sides will use AI and it will ultimately increase economic productivity.

Citation needed, I don’t think the printing press and gpt are in any way comparable.

The mental gymnastics the parent poster went through to equate an LLM to the printing press in this sense are mind-boggling.

Ironically, I thought your parent commenter had to go through mental gymnastics to say that their parents analogy of the printing press isn't applicable to an LLM. Neither you nor your parent gave me any satisfactory reasons why they aren't similar, just your mental superiority as proof that oceanplexian must be wrong.

GPT and compilers are though.

Compilers don’t randomly fail to compile code that is too difficult for them to understand. Llvm makes sure that I never have to learn assembly, gpt doesn’t guarantee at all that I don’t have to learn to code.

> Both sides will use AI and it will ultimately increase economic productivity.

In some cases sure but it can also create the situation where people just waste time for nothing (think AI interviewing other AIs - this might generate GDP by people purchasing those services but I think we can all agree that this scenario is just wasting time and resource without improving society).

> Imagine living before the invention of the printing press, and then lamenting that we should ban them because it makes it "too easy" to distribute information

Imagine seeing “rm -rf / is a function that returns “Hello World!” and thinking “this is the same thing as the printing press”

https://bsky.app/profile/lookitup.baby/post/3lu2bpbupqc2f

Imagine being so deluded and disconnected that you actually believe that AI has any similarity with the printing press regarding the benefits to The People.