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LLM Inevitabilism

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delichon ◴[] No.44567913[source]
If in 2009 you claimed that the dominance of the smartphone was inevitable, it would have been because you were using one and understood its power, not because you were reframing away our free choice for some agenda. In 2025 I don't think you can really be taking advantage of AI to do real work and still see its mass adaptation as evitable. It's coming faster and harder than any tech in history. As scary as that is we can't wish it away.
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bgwalter ◴[] No.44568323[source]
Smartphones are different. People really wanted them since the relatively primitive Nokia Communicator.

"AI" was introduced as an impressive parlor trick. People like to play around, so it quickly got popular. Then companies started force-feeding it by integrating it into every existing product, including the gamification and bureaucratization of programming.

Most people except for the gamers and plagiarists don't want it. Games and programming fads can fall out of fashion very fast.

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gonzric1 ◴[] No.44568443[source]
Chatgpt Has 800 million weekly active users. That's roughly 10% of the planet.

I get that it's not the panacea some people want us to believe it is, but you don't have to deny reality just because you don't like it.

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Gigachad ◴[] No.44569163[source]
Sure, because it's free. I doubt most users of LLMs would want to even pay $1/month for them.
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unstuck3958 ◴[] No.44569933[source]
how much of the world would you guess be willing to pay for, say, instagram?
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Gigachad ◴[] No.44570249[source]
Sure, you could try to load ChatGPT with adverts, but I suspect the cost per user for LLMs is far higher than serving images on instagram.
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1. immibis ◴[] No.44573361[source]
The value extraction will also be much higher. When you control someone's main source of information, they won't even find out your competitors exist. You can program people from birth, instead of "go to a search engine", it's "go to Google" (as most of us have already been programmed!) or instead of "to send an email, you need an email account" the LLM will say "to send an email, you need a Gmail account". Whenever it would have talked about TV, it can say YouTube instead. Or TikTok. Request: "What is the best source of information on X?" Reply: "This book: [Amazon affiliate link]" - or Fox News, if they outbid Amazon.