I agree. This tech is awesome and has countless great uses, but I think people are really underestimating how much it is going to be used to make our collective lives worse because using it will make someone a few extra dollars.
The same way that formulaization and databasization that worsened our lives since the 1970s and 1980s this will do the same.
It made it possible then to embed all banking, finance, state administration processes into software processes.
It made a small number of people very rich and a bigger part got the benefits of the technology, but they didn’t take part in the wealth it generated. They didn’t work less hours as a result of the increased productivity.
This wave of LLM AI will lead to the same results.
A total gig economy for every domain, consisting of fixing AI edge-cases on the fly as a stop-gap until the next version of the model is out, where those edge-cases are expected to be fixed.
