Critics of LLMs are going to have to adapt to an uncomfortable fact: a lot of people like LLMs. They like automation, emulation, and delegating work and responsibility to machines, intrinsically. For many reasons.

Liking things is not vulnerable to rational critique. It is emotional. One cannot be argued out of it.

Neither will those who dislike LLMs, Chatbots, etc. be logically argued out of it. Most objections to these technologies are also, at root, emotional. Objections that they are wasteful, destructive, abusive, and broken are based on feelings that those things are bad. By contrast, their fans don’t care. Arguments will not make them care.

Most people are in awe of power, in some form or other. Some of them are in awe of machines. Some of them are in awe of computers. Some of them are in awe of token predictors. We cannot control when they will become disillusioned. We can only be patient, and seek joy in honest human craft.