I was also quick to dive into early internet forums and feel like I got a lot out of them, but LLMs just seem different. Forums were a novel medium but it was s

I was also quick to dive into early internet forums and feel like I got a lot out of them, but LLMs just seem different. Forums were a novel medium but it was still real people interacting and connecting with each other, often over a shared interest. With LLMs none of the social interactions are genuine and will always be shallow. I'm sure some nerds will continue to host their own models but I would bet that 99.9% of social-type LLM interactions will be with corporate hosted models that can and will be tweaked and weighted in whatever ways the host company thinks will make it the most money. It all reminds me a lot of algorithmic social media feeds. The issues were forseen very early on even if we couldn't predict the exact details, and it's an unsurprising disappointment that all of the major sites have greatly deemphasized organic interactions with friends and family in favor of ads and outrage bait. LLMs are still in their honeymoon phase but with the amount of money being plowed into them I don't expect that to last much longer.