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> Facebook is not an organisation that desparately needs a bunch of LLM-generated content.

This is an overly narrow view of what an LLM can do. Generating text is the really neat parlor trick that people are trying to cram in to every possible startup, but if you take a broader view then what LLMs really are is the single largest breakthrough in natural language understanding.

Facebook doesn't need text generators, but they do need language understanding, especially for recommendation and moderation.

I'm not convinced that it's a complement—Joel's explanation is that you make a product that users consume alongside yours very cheap in order to keep people coming to you— but they definitely need LLMs.