Hello, recent Reddit convert here and I’m loving it. You even inspired me to figure out how to fully dump Windows and install LineageOS.
One thing I can’t understand is the level of acrimony toward LLMs. I see things like “stochastic parrot”, “glorified autocomplete”, etc. If you need an example, the comments section for the post on Apple saying LLMs don’t reason is a doozy of angry people: https://infosec.pub/post/29574988
While I didn’t expect a community of vibecoders, I am genuinely curious about why LLMs strike such an emotional response with this crowd. It’s a tool that has gone from interesting (GPT3) to terrifying (Veo 3) in a few years and I am personally concerned about many of the safety/control issues in the future.
So I ask: what is the real reason this is such an emotional topic for you in particular? My personal guess is that the claims about replacing software engineers is the biggest issue, but help me understand.
I believe Lemmy naturally attracts many people who are sick of enshitification including the prevalence of ai slobs.
Those people make very good points and havy very valid fears.
However don’t let the mob mentality get to you. Some people focus on the current day flaws they fail to see real dangers. While others demonise it so hard they can no longer distinguish good from bad applications.
There are still many people of all flavors of pro ai here.
My own take is that 99% of ai i see and hear is crap because this is transit period of praise and disappointment. But i also see massive positive potential a few decades from now.
Also that negative potential of course but the world has so much negative potential being run by flawed corruptible humans already its a maybe we win or we definitely lose all situation.