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by dvfjsdhgfv 400 days ago
There is no single reason. Nobody will argue that LLMs are already quite useful at some tasks if used properly.

As for the opposing view, there are so many reasons.

* Founders and other people who bet their money on AI try to pump up the hype in spite of problems with delivery

* We know some of them are plainly lying, but the general public doesn't

* They repeat their assumptions as facts ("AI will replace most X and Y jobs by year Z")

* We clearly see that the enormous development of LLMs has plateaued but they try to convince the general public it's the contrary

* We see the difference on how a single individual (Aaron Swartz) is treated when making a small copyright infringement, and how the consequences for AI companies like OpenAI or Meta who copied the whole contents of Libgen are non-existent.

* Some people like me just hate AI slop - in writing and imaging. It just puts me off and I stop reading/watching etc.

There are many more points like this.