My feeling is that LLMs are an interesting technology. I don't feel currently threatened by them, and they're handy in the hands of people that can use them wit

My feeling is that LLMs are an interesting technology. I don't feel currently threatened by them, and they're handy in the hands of people that can use them with discipline. However, I think the people controlling and creating the LLMs are by and large scumbags who want to gamble with everyone's future. It's hard for me to look at their public statements and the actions of people like Altman, Amodei, Musk, and come away with any other conclusion than that these are fairly awful people that have bad intentions. Their message is essentially "we want to summon the machine god to destroy your livelihood because it will enrich us and give us power over the world, and there's a really high probability it gets out of control and causes massive problems [that we're completely going to not do anything about]. But we really like money! And we have bunkers!" I suspect a lot of people are in this boat. We both use it and cheer against it. But it's not cognitive dissonance, it's just a recognition that there's a useful tool being controlled by vile people.