While I take your point, I don’t think we’re quite at the enshittification phase of LLM products yet, where some combination of crass marketing and Orwellian na

While I take your point, I don’t think we’re quite at the enshittification phase of LLM products yet, where some combination of crass marketing and Orwellian narrative control are baked into to the models for profit and/or to curry favor with govt. Right now we are at a phase where the platform companies are still concerned about finding and selling basic use cases before the hype bubble bursts. There is still a strong possibility that LLM as a product is essentially stillborn in the market writ large, because we are trying to use these tools where end users expect a perfectly accurate, repeatable, deterministic response and there is no guarantee that any of these current techniques, cool as they are, will cross the threshold of user expectations and utility enough to justify the costs. Neither AI doomers nor boosters are accurate representations of the general public.