LLM Slop Won't Replace People and Jobs (in the Long Run)
At the end of the day, people who know their job offer more useful information, whereas LLMs waste people's time (typically an 'externality' to the entity deploying chatbots)
Like most Mondays, yesterday we published a lot, but the majority was short posts about stuff like statCounter. What counts is not the number of words (contrary what what LLM pushers want companies and people to believe), it's the precision and accuracy. People are good at the latter. 120+ KG of legal papers, for instance, don't win legal battles, they just add up to over a million pounds in bills. In this one example, hundreds of pages were simply generated by a computer program; the judge heard that and rejected all these claims.
LLMs are a passing fad that makes FUD. They will go away, eventually, as they are extremely uneconomic and full of problems.
As Alexandre Oliva put it this week, "[h]igh executives at tech and even nontech companies feel compelled to get involved with this mAnIa, despite the lack of evidence of any company but nVidia actually turning a profit out of LLM tech, and plenty of evidence of failure upon failure upon failure of projects that have embraced the hallucinating pursuit of automation. And yet, despite failure to experience benefits, execs keep on doubling down on the bet that it can't be the case that everyone else is talking nonsense and only themselves aren't succeeding in unleashing the superpowers they have been led to believe these systems would get them."
The Cyber Show also has some excellent articles related to this topic. █