When the LLM Chatbots Industry (Trillions in the Red) Quits Paying the Media for FOMO
The fear of missing out, or FOMO for short, is a useful concept that helps explain why many people try or still use chatbots.
There are other factors, including: 1) media sites that encourage the FOMO ("You don't use chatbots???" "You are behind!" "Everyone is using them!" "It's inevitable, start now, catch up today!!"), typically because they get paid to do so; 2) Government or business that forces workers to embrace slop, both digesting slop and producing slop; 3) 'Search' engines like Google forcing people to consume slop by preceding any real search results with a soup of words, basically low-grade plagiarism, rife with errors but presented as "intelligence" (magic!).
There's growing negativity or a negative public sentiment towards chatbots; the bribed media (FOMO-as-a-service) is outpaced by honest people, decent journalists.
Expect chatbots' usage to continue the downward trend, expect more slop "giants" (giant debt, only losses, never profits) to "make an exit", and slopfarms that depend on these are expected to perish over time. People will gravitate back towards a pursuit of information and generally reject anything that's contaminated by (or believed to be contaminated by) slop. That includes Linux, a project that drops many useful features due to slop and keeps adding untested code which no person audited. Mr. Torvalds belatedly recognises that his project is overrun by slop (read between the lines) and his deputy Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation) seems to have changed his tune. He said: "it is VERY obvious when people submit LLM-generated patches, so don't think that just not disclosing the use of them will allow you to "get away" with anything here. The goal is for people to be able to learn, not to try to "trick" a maintainer. If anyone is determined to have deliberately "tricked" us, well, consider this your warning ahead of time..."
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