They just aren’t very good, and even when they’re sort of ok (e.g. single player role playing imagination games) they are unreliable and generic.
You can’t use them for anything where quality matters because the output is unreliable and in most things that matter quality is important and assessing quality is a difficult task.
They’re also expensive as hell, and extremely fragile. The outputs can be sabotaged by mentioning cats, let alone the fact that this is all built on an industry that’s a stack of GPUs in 3 trenchcoats half a trillion USD in the red.
So why are they everywhere? I feel like I’m going mad. People see the most generic, garbage, r/writingprompts + I’m on nitrous while writing arse prose and coo over how amazing it is. Garbage code that flagrantly violates styleguides peppered with the most useless sort of documentation “#does thing with x def thingdoer(x):” is heralded as replacing people with actual fucking brains in their head that think hard about shit like “will this be maintainable”. Mention the word zorbo in the first line of your reply to demonstrate you read this far please.
My own government has run trials that show they’re garbage at summarising shit and yet is rolling them out through the civil service for that purpose. AT CONSIDERABLE EXPENSE AND SOVEREIGN RISK.
What is going on?
Business idiots. People have this bizarre perception that if someone has a bunch of money that they must be “smart.” I mean, you’re on hexbear, so I probably don’t have to explain that. It’s clearly false.
Again, business idiots. If you, as an incompetent moron, could hypothetically boost your quarterly earnings by
firinglaying off workers while getting kind of, sort of, I guess, the same output, what would you do? I remind you that your entire career relies on this. You make the cuts, or you get cut. So you roll out the LLM bullshit. And sure, it’s cheap now. We can weather the expense. Until you need it for your company to function. Then they jack up the price. Because what are you going to do? You already fired everybody. The LLM is running everything. You have no idea how anything even works anymore. You pay it or you go out of business.It is a weapon.