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Why would anyone subscribe? LLMs rarely are actually helpful and I really tried, as I'm a damn tech-nerd for decades. But most of the time it just takes longer to get worse results than just doing it yourself.
I would not pay 1 buck annually for this. And surely not 30 a month
They're extremely helpful, just not at a professional level. They can help a student proof read an essay or a content creator come up with a script, but they can't help you code an app from scratch or give you a medical diagnosis.
Sorry but if you can't make LLMs useful there is something wrong with how you are using them. The problwm with this whole system is that it's very helpful and valuable to the average person, as well as experts.
I'm sorry I wish you were correct but this narrative that LLMs don't work is false and bourne out of lack of experience or just flat out lies.
Lies will not defeat our very powerful opponents here, nor their massive and expensive weapons.
Pretending the enemy is useless when the opposite is true is just leaving yourself and your allies unprepared.
They are a tool, but some people use it as a replacement for actual knowledge, and take it as gospel. Its going to create a generation of idiots
I didn't say the don't work. They're just mainly useless. For coding? Nice for quick prototyping, seeking alternate approaches or such. Real code? Rarely working and in the end you spend more time fixing stuff than it initially saved.
For everyday research? It's helpful sometimes, but mostly plain wrong. That one sure isn't inherent of LLM but the data it feeds on.
For what it's great is translations, summarizing stuff or a nicer web search. And my own locally run for the smart home. For that it's a blast. Like "close gate, open front door, turn on all lights at 50% in a lush shade of green, and turn on the coffee machine". Absolutely awesome.
But paying for that? And even like 30 moneyz? No way. Don't get me wrong, I fucking love all tech and LLMs are kinda a dream coming true. But it's still not really there. My last session with Claude ended in the "AI" giving up and asking ME how I solved it. Only to then admit my answer would be useless as it is forgotten anyway after that chat 😁
I have no political agenda and surely don't lack experience. I don't even see LLM as an enemy. I wish it was actually intelligent and really helpful/timesaving more than 50% of the time.
Not questioning generative powers for video or image or sound. They're awesome there and totally timesaving and extremely helpful.
And I'd also argue that the "average person" to whom it is very helpful is easy to please with any answer to their everyday questions. Especially if presented in the usual asslicking way based on total and absolute confidence.
Yeah screw all those disabled people who benefit from it. We'll just group them in with the other counterfactuals you have to ignore to maintain an opinion like yours.
Truth. I don't support US tech either but their LLMs are state of the art and VERY useful... No point lying about it. I'm supporting Mistral.ai instead now. Their model is good enough for my use cases, and I'm hoping their recent reported uptick in users like myself helps fund the research and hardware to make them even more competitive.