@codinghorrorJeff Atwood @cstrossCharlie Stross @jhooper I can't and don't speak for Charlie or anyone, but my position is:

* LLMs are not AI

* LLMs are bad and 99% of bot slop is bad. Ecologically, for users, for consumers, in general, bad.

* Taking publicly-available data to feed LLMs is bad

Bots can make slop because they've been trained on stuff humans made. Companies running bots are making money off stuff they did not pay for. That is bad.

Searching is OK. Searching connects creators to consumers.

Remixing that and serving it instead is bad.

Crawling for content is bad.

This is not complicated or hard or even subtle. I do not understand your frantic requests for clarification.

No, I have not watched your video. I hate video. I speedread. Is there text anywhere?