> Realistically how many people are currently employed "writing low quality spam articles" Up until LLMs started eating their lunch, a lot. I knew several peo

> Realistically how many people are currently employed "writing low quality spam articles" Up until LLMs started eating their lunch, a lot. I knew several people who wrote softball slop articles for no name tech blogs. Lots of generic how-tos in basic Java or Python questions, etc. Now that's all automated and its mostly slop being used by AI to generate more slop. > There's real people doing real productive things with AIs that do boring things right now. elaborate. I can think of at least a couple, but most of their approaches are only "AI" in a marketing sense, like Moderna using data driven, highly automated testing to create vaccine candidates. Absolutely nothing to do with LLMs as they exist in most places. > Now you just feed your garbage question to a large language model that swallowed the entirety of the internet and a few seconds later it's spitting back something useful. citation needed. I'm about 4 for 8 in terms of real technical questions and real, correct answers. Feeding Copilot and ChatGPT some questions about CVEs exploited in the wild got me wildly wrong answers until I started doing a lot of prompt work, but by that point I could have just googled the CVEs myself and got an answer I knew was accurate. Ditto with fixing some MongoDB calls that look correct but didn't work, and took me longer to understand than just trying random shit, or asking on reddit. Maybe it will get there, eventually, but outside of mass content generation I can't see a reason to trust the results.