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krig@goto.liten.app wrote:
@Hypfer I think saying that's a neutral amplifier is oversimplification, that's not what it does. There is a statistical inference happening based on the training data.
Imagine that it is trying to finish a sentence for you. You are not simply getting "more sentence", you are getting a somewhat statistically likely average of what the rest of the sentence might look like. So you what you get is likely to "make sense", but be flat. It won't generate anything brilliant or come up with something that no one has seen before (other than through juxtaposition), it can't. So it's not just giving you more or amplifying what you put in. There is a direction to it.
It's easier to see with images and designs than with code. All generated images look the same. They have a lifeless, copycat quality to them, no matter how good they get. All of the AI-generated websites look the same, and they all look like shit. Every startup looks like shit now. And I really think it's bad for people to interact with this technology because while you may think that you are the one in control, the LLM output is training you too and you are adapting to it as much as it is doing what you tell it to do.
If you spend your days interacting with LLMs, you will take psychic damage from that. I am convinced of that. Part of that damage, I think, is losing the ability to see just how shit it is. So when you're feeling productive creating all these things, you are not seeing the sloppiness of what it's putting out, how shit it is. And aren't you robbing yourself? Would it not be more worthwhile to make just one thing that is uniquely yours, that you can be proud of, than all those things that you aren't showing anyone else, that you didn't make, that you don't value and that ultimately just degrades you? I mean, I really think so. I think you are making yourself less by using these tools to replace that part of you which is uniquely yours. Your ability to make things that no one else could make.