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by sznio 1048 days ago
LLMs are too dumb to be useful, but smart enough to be destructive.

You don't need to be able to generate correct regexes to create a blogspam article about regexes that will go to the top of the search results.

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> LLMs are too dumb to be useful, but smart enough to be destructive.

I think this puts the blame in the wrong place; LLMs are too dumb to be useful, but it's the users who are too dumb to realise that, or too unethical to care.

It's also the creators, hosters, and startup founders who are overselling its capabilities.
I was lumping them in with 'users'; I don't think the evangelists are any less credulous than their marks.
search is dying anyway and this will just accelerate that trend.