@tante I, for one, enjoyed the write-up.

As you, I do plenty of things that I either cannot morally or ethically defend or simply am ignorant of the harms of.

For other technology, I am either pressured to use it (by government or similar institutions) or I can at least use it 'for good' (facilitating some other good - in current case, student administration) and also make a living.

For LLMs, I fail to see the redeeming qualities that make the compromise 'worth it'. It's all nett negatives.

@tante My point is that LLMs 'try' (and very often fail) to solve the wrong problem.

Writing all the boilerplate -> should be solved by better frameworks.
Spell check -> I think this is already invented.
Summarize long texts -> Executive summaries.
Produce (verbose) text -> Writing in my view is as much thinking as it is writing - skipping the thinking part is counter-productive.

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