Fuck AI

Yes, I am. I just happen to be quite against the usage of CodeGen LLMs (and LLMs in general) for an absolute litany of reasons - based on topics including, but not limited to:

• efficiency of implementation (it’s just enormous piles of markov chains brute forcing inputs into stochastic outputs; or: why aren’t we exploring analog implementations for this, which is a much better architectural fit in terms of the physical silicon)
• energy impact (it’s massively spiking utility bills for shitloads of people, because the cost is being socialized)
• ecolological (including auditory) and hydrological impact
• economic impact (bubble tiem)
• unbelievably huge licensing issues that are consistently hand-waved away or summarily dismissed without meaningful comment
• double-standard of piracy (it’s ok if OpenAI does it, but it’s not ok if you do it)
• societal impact, including how trivial it is now to generate completely fabricated text, visual, audio, and video content from effectively nothing
• professional impact (leadership prioritizing AI bullshit over pretty much anything else)
• impact on the domain and profession of computer science itself (companies have significantly cut back or eliminated hiring juniors/entry-levels)
• hobbyist impact (where the fuck are homelabbers supposed to buy RAM and SSD nowadays, let alone GPUs?)

I can go on, but I’ll leave it there for now.