#tldr SHUT UP! i want to friends with a robot someday

[vamptastic]

generally idgaf about chatgpt or ai in general. i think ppl fearmongering about it are on the same level as like, people who think robotics is evil because boston dynamics exists. i do also think LLMs are mostly useless in their current form and the only place they should really occupy in creative endeavors is being used to expedite the process of finding inspiration, which is really just a faster way of googling what you want to draw/write/produce and looking at examples manually. it sucks that it's marketed as the future of writing or whatever so that ppl who research it can get funding, it sucks that some people who work on this technology genuinely believe that, but the technology itself won't stop existing and shouldn't stop existing. genuinely baffled at how quickly people will decide some random extremely broad category of thing is the devil incarnate based on a telephone game of misinformation and also like, science fiction.