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is it true? there are millions of people who get real value out of LLMs and these takes basically hand-wave that away with platitudes about how they sometimes hallucinate. i understand VC grifters are proselytizing the heck out of this but the modal LLM user doesn’t actually care who else uses it!

The only solution is "use least harmful option" vs tech is evil. Why? Practical. Example Bsky vs Twitter/Facebook, Toyota vs Tesla, etc, etc.

You don't know the counterfactual though. How much worse would it have been without the outrage?

No one should make a dime of AI built on plagiarized data.

You're here on Bluesky because you saw what was broken on Twitter. If someone had simply said to you "DO NOT BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA" as their answer to Twitter being taken over by fascists, would you have said "that's a reasonable alternative"? Think about your actual answer to this question.

Yeah, but these technologies suck shit and I legitimately hate interacting with them at all. Even if it were the nicest people in the world trying to get me to use them, I'd STILL be irritated by them. They're obnoxious, and they create more problems than they solve.

Won’t comment on the usefulness of AI as I don’t know enough atm, but props for standing your ground.

Sitting in a circle singing AI kumbayah to stop fascism

I mean, the other thing to consider is that none of us have billions of dollars in dry powder looking for the next snake oil to invest in. Even if we adored these products, no one is listening to us in the first place.

I mean... I can *kind* of grant this? In general. But that's absolutely not what most of this shit is doing. It's people scolding the already-converted. Like, there is not one person in my mentions who thinks I'm running a memecoin scam. They're just choir-preaching to make themselves feel good.

This is MUCH bigger than most know. Vastly larger than all robberies and burglaries put together! See attached. So what can WE do? For starters 2 things. Education....and personal involvement to help victims during process.

I have thought this through- am starting a crusade to attack it in an efficient manner. Yes, naming people and telling Scam stories will not do anything... only Government and Corporations can slow this - BUT, we can provide the educational resources. Some at craigsfire.com - more....

Self-righteousness is the coin of this realm. Being right feels good, and the only thing better than feeling right is being the 2000th goober to pile on with some lazy derivative shit. Community for the righteously indigent. These folks are pissed about other people finding a tool helpful 🫠

so from the outside, it looks like this is a battle that's already been lost. If you think it's a winnable one, and would like to ask for *help* in allowing "tech" to mean people who aren't actively trying to destroy society, then ask for help, don't criticize us for being pissed off at the scammers

1- Invest in ESG to offset cost 2 - Get your effing data cleaned up and ready for use 3 - Build personal, team, company and government level governance through standards and thoughtful leadership Share and learn. It’s the same work from when PC’s, internet, mobile and cloud all “went-to-market”.

That’s true but doesn’t make it a better argument. I think it is a good argument to say they have to push the technology bc they’re so deeply invested in this tech bro fever dream that there’s no turning back for them. Heck, some of them went as far as aiding a hostile takeover of the government…