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The thing about this, as someone who’s very versed in LLMs and related technologies, is that the mainstream, mass-marketed versions of “AI” are *worthy* of contempt! Even if you like this tech, why would you advocate for such shitty versions of it? The Internet didn’t *start out* being shitty!

Actually the early Internet was pretty shitty. Text only, low bandwidth. A few hundred sites. It got good after Mosaic and with broadband.

The Internet was far more than that pre-web! Usenet thrived for decades, mailing lists were wildly valuable, and FTP enabled massive innovations. Even Gopher unlocked huge amounts of information sharing. I still used all of those for many years after the web showed up; we’re using text right now.

the early internet was *incredibly good* at being what they designed the early internet to be. FTP transferred files from one place to another. Mailing lists sent mail to a list of people. I do not feel the same way about the current crop of AI.