cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2811405
"We view this moment of hype around generative AI as dangerous. There is a pack mentality in rushing to invest in these tools, while overlooking the fact that they threaten workers and impact consumers by creating lesser quality products and allowing more erroneous outputs. For example, earlier this year America’s National Eating Disorders Association fired helpline workers and attempted to replace them with a chatbot. The bot was then shut down after its responses actively encouraged disordered eating behaviors. "
A computer program is just a series of single bits activating and deactivating. That’s what you’re saying when you say a LLM is simply predicting words. You’re not thinking at the appropriate level of abstraction. The whole point is the mechanism by which words are produced and the information encoded.