First off, there is utility, and that utility varies based on your needs. In software development for example, the utility varies from doing most of the work to nearly useless and you feel like the LLM users are gaslighting you based on how useless it is to you. People who live life making utterly boilerplate applications feel like it’s magical. People who generate tons of what are supposed to be ‘design documents’ but get eyed by non-technical executives that don’t understand them, but like to see volumes of prose, LLMs can just generate that no problem (no one who actually would need them ever reads them anyway). Then people who work on more niche scenarios get annoyed because they barely do anything useful, but attempting to use them gets you innundated with low quality code suggestions.
But I’d say mostly it’s about the ratio of investment/hype to the reality. The investment is scary because one day the bubble will pop (doesn’t mean LLM is devoid of value, just that the business context is irrational right now, just like internet was obviously important, but we still had a bubble around the turn of the century overy it). The hype is just so obnoxious, they won’t shut up even when they have nothing really new to say. We get it, we’ve heard it, saying it over and over again just is exhausting to hear.
On creative fronts, it’s kind of annoying when companies use it in a way that is noticeable. I think they could get away with some backdrops and stuff, but ‘foreground’ content is annoying due to being a dull paste of generic content with odd looks. For text this manifests as obnoxiously long prose that could be more to the point.
On video, people are generating content and claiming ‘real’, in ways to drive engagement. That short viral clip of animals doing a funny thing? Nope, generated. We can’t trust video content, whether fluff or serious to be authentic.
I would not say love, but it’s definitely a great tool to master. Used to be pretty lame, but things seem to be changing fast.
I don’t really understand Lemmy’s AI hate, so feel free to change my mind
There’s a few things.
First off, there is utility, and that utility varies based on your needs. In software development for example, the utility varies from doing most of the work to nearly useless and you feel like the LLM users are gaslighting you based on how useless it is to you. People who live life making utterly boilerplate applications feel like it’s magical. People who generate tons of what are supposed to be ‘design documents’ but get eyed by non-technical executives that don’t understand them, but like to see volumes of prose, LLMs can just generate that no problem (no one who actually would need them ever reads them anyway). Then people who work on more niche scenarios get annoyed because they barely do anything useful, but attempting to use them gets you innundated with low quality code suggestions.
But I’d say mostly it’s about the ratio of investment/hype to the reality. The investment is scary because one day the bubble will pop (doesn’t mean LLM is devoid of value, just that the business context is irrational right now, just like internet was obviously important, but we still had a bubble around the turn of the century overy it). The hype is just so obnoxious, they won’t shut up even when they have nothing really new to say. We get it, we’ve heard it, saying it over and over again just is exhausting to hear.
On creative fronts, it’s kind of annoying when companies use it in a way that is noticeable. I think they could get away with some backdrops and stuff, but ‘foreground’ content is annoying due to being a dull paste of generic content with odd looks. For text this manifests as obnoxiously long prose that could be more to the point.
On video, people are generating content and claiming ‘real’, in ways to drive engagement. That short viral clip of animals doing a funny thing? Nope, generated. We can’t trust video content, whether fluff or serious to be authentic.