alt Hacker NewsIts usual gibberish that tries to throw many darts and see what sticks. Oh LLM's steal other people's work? Check. Oh LLM's cause ecological damage? Check. Oh LLM's hallucinate? Check.
When you see a pattern like this, you know that its not coming from any place of truth but rather ideology
My personal red flag for this is the scare quoting of AI, and the super try-hard categorization work that people perform to try and discredit LLMs.
It takes approximately 1 min to find out that machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, both having existed for about half a century now. This basic historical fact is also taught on AI 101 courses across the globe for compsci students.
Yet here we are, people portraying it as some sort of cheap sales trick. Reminds me when I discussed quantum dots with a friend, which he was very enthusiastic to quickly file under "yet another bullshit with quantum in its name" before finally taking the time to understand that the "quantum" bit is not a marketing gimmick. Except in this case, people are a million times more inclined to willfully propagate this. Genuinely so tiresome.