I encountered an LLM-based support assistant today that told me it couldn't answer my question because another, different LLM chatbot had an exclusive license/authority on that information, and I suddenly had a vivid vision of a previously unexplored layer of hell.
I don't hate AI. On the contrary, it's fascinated me since I was a kid playing around with LISP because I heard the MIT AI Lab used it a lot.
I hate that people don't know there is more to AI than LLMs, and I hate that LLMs are being marketed as GenAI. I hate that the rich are ready to set the proletariat ablaze because they think GenAI is here. I hate that we're overlooking the potential societal devestation that could be ahead because right-leaning billionaires control the training of the markov bots. I hate that as a whole we're not taking the AI bubble. I hate that we're not treating this like the second rush to own all the printing presses. I hate that all research is now being sucked into an LLM black hole.
I hate that every bit of data, every medium, every forum, every source repository, every newspaper, every social media platform is being slowly turned to grey goo by slop feedback loops.
I hate that I have to archive a copy of Wikipedia so I have a reference I can trust from the before times.
I just had ChatGPT reveal it knows my current location, a place I'm not usually located, then tell me I am mistaken that it said that, because if it knew where I was that would be a major regulatory and legal issue, so I must be mistaken. Now It's trying to convince me that's not where I am.