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Why will LLMs make things more efficient? As I see it, LLMs have the potential to either reduce the amount of "bullshit jobs/tasks", reduce the amount of time
by semi-extrinsic 3y ago
Why will LLMs make things more efficient?
As I see it, LLMs have the potential to either reduce the amount of "bullshit jobs/tasks", reduce the amount of time programmers spend on boilerplate, etc.
But those inefficiencies are 95% human made, on purpose. Bullshit tasks are made up because middle managers want more underlings. Languages/frameworks with lots of boilerplate exist because companies would rather hire fifty average programmers rather than ten brilliant ones.
Even if LLMs have the potential to make these things more efficient, the people holding the money bags don't want the inefficiencies removed.
Consider influencers. What they post on social media could 100% be replaced by the outputs of LLMs and diffusion models. It would be vastly more efficient for companies to advertise their products by creating text and images about a pretty person using their products in an exotic location, than to pay for airplane tickets and hotels and salary for an influencer. Yet we don't see even a hint of the "influencer revenue crisis" that this would cause.
- fzzzy 3y agoThe people holding the money bags who don't want the inefficiencies removed, will have their money bags removed by people who do. Not instantly and not perfectly though. Inefficiency can be very resistant to change as you are pointing out.
- mempko 3y agoYou should read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Goes over why capitalism creates all these bullshit jobs despite theory saying otherwise. Have you considered that LLMs may increase the efficiency of bullshitization?