I just don't understand why we need to spend hundreds of billions, steal decades of creative output, and wreck the environment all to build a machine that confidently gives the wrong answer to almost any question when mediocre men already exist.
Slaves. The ownership class/elite/ultra-rich at the very top want slaves who can think enough to administrate civilization for them in the middle managerial niche, but who won't/can't talk back or read about Marx. It's the holy grail neo slaves that are kosher when it goes in the history-books.
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Mediocre Men believe without a doubt that they are the Best Men, and therefore believe life would be immeasurably improved by creating an infinite number of simulacra of themselves.
Rich white men felt the pressing urge to institutionalize the absolute jerk figure and make it literally anyone else's problem.
Because those mediocre men want the insulating protection of cover behind their “cost-saving measures vs expensive creative labor”?
WGAAS - White Guy As A Service
Mediocre men created the machine. GIGO.
We are compensating for this by making the machines sound like the smuggest men alive
I've been in the tech industry long enough to have watched the evolution of machine-learning into massive-scale LLMs and I'll never not admire the cleverness of its implementation; And yet I'll also never not loathe the decision to turn it into an automated plagiarism engine