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How do you actually see chatgpt and its consequences ending? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Because I’m seeing more and more each day people once considered experts now on the same level as an untrained person who knows how to type. And I’m really hoping LLMs reach a tipping point because otherwise, you’re just adding another nauseating element to the rat race.

I’m no stranger to the “adapt or get left behind” comments, and it’s very funny when people tell me this but can no longer tell me how a for loop works or what constitutes an outer join.

lol hate to say it but this shithole needs to humbled by an act of war that brings down the power grid, capitalist realism is quickly turning into economic and technological realism (if it hasn’t already).

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

chatgpt and its relatives are fundamentally limited by the fact that linear increases in performance require exponentially increasing amounts of data and processing power, whereas its getting implicitly marketed as if it were the other way around.

so the inevitability of decreasing return on investment means it will be a race to the bottom to deploy cheap, shitty versions of this stuff anywhere it might be "good enough", and over time the ecosystem will evolve such that "good enough" is a depreciating standard even as it expands into more and more niches. everything will get worse in ways we haven't even imagined yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

“Good enough” is how every company I’ve worked for since college has structured their day to day operations agony-shivering

It’s a stimulant-based world, people are just trying to speed everything up (to grow more of course) while sacrificing all aspects of their personal lives without a second thought.

Really curious if we are doing our damned best to emulate the controlled substances and drugs that give people heart attacks