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LLM Inevitabilism

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mmaunder ◴[] No.44571379[source]
You can't put an idea as compelling as AI back in the bottle. Once the knowledge of how to build a model, and what the reward is, permeated society, it became an inevitability. Protest all you want and frame it as a choice if you'd like, but the 8 billion people on this planet will simply go around you, much like the sick little boy that the zombies bypassed in World War Z. We've seen this with hand tools, the wheel, horses, steam engines and combustion engines, electricity, TCP/IP and now AI. It is not the manifestation of human preferences. It is instead the irreversible discovery by a species of what is possible in this lonely universe.
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1. 1970-01-01 ◴[] No.44571581[source]
That's positivity hubris. LLMs are as dangerous as they are helpful to society. An AI bottle will be manufactured and then taxed. Society will end up banning it for general use. Just as you can't build and carry a firearm, drive a car, fly an airplane, sell food, or even be prescribed medicine without a license, you will not be able to enjoy unlimited AI without a yearly 'license to LLM' and the appropriate and correct tax forms.