[SecretDreams]

Yeah, but it's multiple orders of magnitude apart.

Are we also going to start putting LLM engineers to the fire because they're accelerating the enshitification of our world? Probably not.

[LadyCailin]

That’s not a good example, since you can argue that LLMs have utility to humanity. Hiding the cancel button has none, except for rent seeking.

[angrysaki]

The bigger difference is that the net utility for LLMs could turn out to be massively negative

[LadyCailin]

Maybe! But that’s certainly debatable. “I thought I was doing the right thing” is anyways a much better defense than “I was just following orders” anyways.

[SecretDreams]

Rockets have value to humanity too, but some people that worked on rockets ended up working for people that did not want to use rockets to improve human life.