LLMs are a near-perfect rentier technology. The cost of training them to the point where they're even marginally useful is so prohibitive that only people with very deep pockets can do it. The goal then is to make us all reliant on them, by shoehorning them into as many products as possible.
And it doesn't matter whether or not we actually need them if products won't work without them.
It's basically like if they decided to put a coin-operated toaster oven in every vehicle. You don't actually want toast, but if you don't keep feeding it coins, the car won't start.
@jasongorman Thats reminds me a printer/scanner that can't scan if the ink is low
@jasongorman The problem is nobody is going to rely on them because they're awful. Bosses just keep trying to push them on ppl who hate them.
@dalias And then expect productivity to double because they read it in Forbes
@dalias The thing is, if products are redesigned so they won't work without the LLM (like putting a coin-operated toaster in every car and designing the electrical system to not work without it), then whether or not we actually *want* toast will be largely irrelevant.
@jasongorman People generally don't use stuff they sufficiently hate. Especially if you're asking them to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars extra for it.
@jasongorman That’s an excellent point that I haven’t seen elsewhere - can we call this “dependency injection” now?
@vladimir_lu @jasongorman "dependency injection attack"
@jasongorman this is how we're going to get the Butlerian Jihad several thousand years earlier than originally predicted
@tserong But instead of a century-long war, it could just be a matter of switching to Linux 
@tserong Seriously, though, the war won't be with thinking machines. It'll be with corporate interests *pretending* they have thinking machines. And that war already started.
@jasongorman oh absolutely. Good times... :-/
@jasongorman agreed.
The thing is, when a person or business needs to cut costs, the best place to do so is by disconnecting ongoing services. That is why they try to lock people in with long term contracts.
So, preventively, DO NOT BECOME DEPENDENT ON SOMEBODY ELSE'S SERVICES in the first place!
With AI, you still have to employ really experienced people to spot and fix the complicated mistakes.