The fact that LLMs are somewhat useful isn't really the subject here. The problem is that to be worth what they're evaluated at they'd need to be thousands of t

The fact that LLMs are somewhat useful isn't really the subject here. The problem is that to be worth what they're evaluated at they'd need to be thousands of times more useful than they are. They can be useful, and extremely overvaluated at the same time, which still ends up in a crash. All the actors are bleeding money right now, would you spend $500 a month on an llm ? $1000 ? how many people would ? You also don't account for the infinite flow of slop being generated 100x faster than any productive work: "Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500485 How much money, resource and time is spent on generating/hosting/discussing/cleaning up this slop ? How much of social distrust is created by LLM generated sociopolitcal discussions online ? &c.