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Wonder what the numbers would be on the Internet positively impacting society, as AI has a lot of the same harms and benefits of the Internet. It gives people easy access to a lot more information, but it also gives them access to a lot more bullshit.
Even after we've had years for it fully develop IDK if I'd say the Internet is positively impacting society.
10 years ago i would have said the internet was absolutely a net positive. The internet today is not like what it used to be. But i think that's way more because of late stage capitalism than it is the concept/technology of the internet itself. LLMs as a concept/technology have very few use cases that can positively impact society imo.
This is a ridiculous comparison. GenAI has practically zero use case compared to the internet and it's benefits to economic and logistical planning and communications. How the hell do you even come up with this take? We have already reached diminishing returns on advancement, meanwhile all these datacenters are massive resource drains with literally 0 benefit to society.
I think it's a good comparison.
The main benefit of the Internet is that it gives easy access to near limitless information. The basic Google use case of the Internet, I type in a question and get a link to an answer, whether that's a reddit thread, stack overflow, wiki article etc.
Whether you like it or not people are increasingly using LLMs for these sort of basic "factual" questions. Yes they can lie/hallucinate, so can someone on reddit, but most of the time they are correct and that's good enough for most people.
The problem with both is when we take them to seriously. It is common knowledge that both LLMs and the Internet can lie or bullshit you. When you lose sight of that fact and believe an internet community or personality or an LLM knows the world better then your own sense, it becomes a problem. And honestly the people who get AI psychosis are far less dangerous to society then some racist asshole who lost his mind on 4chan.
People like you are the reason people hate AI. Both are painfully confidently wrong.
How am I wrong? Do you think getting information is not a use case? Or that people aren't using LLMs for that use case? If not you seem to be the one confidently wrong claiming there are 0 use cases.
You can dislike the fact that people are using it for that use case, some people don't like the Internet being used for porn, but you can't deny that people are using it and getting something out of it.