Greg Hogan <[email protected]> wrote:
Do you believe that this use "of genAI tends to demean human
creativity, to discourage the learning and knowledge sharing
processes"? And that this particular application "stifles
individual autonomy at a fundamental level—replacing one’s
ability to build up knowledge with a false sense of quick
achievement, building up [cognitive debt—while also weakening
communities and destroying labor power"? Or is it that these
effects can only be seen in the aggregate?
i do, for one, and experts seem to agree, raising concerns about
the impact of outsourcing your work to an LLM on mental skills,
critical thinking among them.[0][1] I also recommend reading the
articles listed at [2] if you think you sleep too well at night.
~30% of global carbon emissions come from the production of food
but Guix still serves food at Guix Days.
do you propose we deprive ourselves of the fundamental human need
of *eating food* just so we do not look like hypocrites because of
rejecting use of electricity and water to make lives of people
worse? with all due respect, this comparison sounds ridiculous to
me.
I don't agree that "the leading commercial genAI services
... achieve a concentration of power over the lives of people
rarely seen before". I see AI as a tool for remixing the world,
decentralizing control. Surely governments and oligarchs would
prefer exclusive access to these technologies.
output of LLMs has been shown to be heavily biased in favour of
the companies who ‹own› the models; that is, not only is there
external bias present in the training data (which, in itself, is
exploitable by outside actors[3][4]), the companies themselves
filter the data to present a view more favourable of them, their
business, generative artificial intelligence, their political
stances, et cetera.[5]
LLMs are a tool, yes, but so far it has not been shown to have
beneficial uses, only those that impact everybody—not just the
users—negatively.
0^ ‹AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the
Future of Critical Thinking›. MDPI
<https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6>
1^ ‹AI chatbots could be making you stupider›. BBC
<https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260417-ai-chatbots-could-be-making-you-stupider>
2^ LLM Death Count <https://llmdeathcount.com/>
3^ ‹A Pro-Russia Content Network Foreshadows the Automated Future
of Info Ops› (PDF). American Sunlight Project
<https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6612cbdfd9a9ce56ef931004/t/67fd396818196f3d1666bc23/1744648558879/PK+Report.pdf>
4^ ‹Russian networks flood the Internet with propaganda, aiming to
corrupt AI chatbots›. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
<https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/russian-networks-flood-the-internet-with-propaganda-aiming-to-corrupt-ai-chatbots/>
5^ ‹Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey›.
Computational Linguistics 2024; 50 (3): 1097–1179. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00524
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