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The antibiotic you're talking about had absolutely nothing to do with LLMs. You don't understand what a.i. is and you're lumping everything together because of your ignorance.
LLMs are only used for natural language processing. That has a lot of potential, but none of the things you mentioned are natural language processing (except processing linguistic surveillance and gathering linguistic data). Everything else you listed has literally nothing to do with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc. LLMs are not the only a.i. in the world and just because something uses a.i. doesn't mean it's using an LLM
LLM/AI however you call it, it doesn't matter since the results are still there that it has been useful in certain areas. Probably not in your area but it is most definitely useful in others which is why many people see huge potential on the technology. Of course, the gravest concern is on fields where human creativity is a must, which we won't like AI usurping. I also don't like AI surveillance which is something that governments across the world want to exploit.
So this is the other reason people hate a.i.. It's because people like you who are totally ignorant of how the technology works and how the economics work, when presented with facts, hand wave your own ignorance away as though it's irrelevant and then snap back to your original position which is that the critique of a.i. comes from some emotional or mental deficiency on behalf of the criticizers when you can't even understand their criticism because of your ignorance.
My point is whether or not it's called LLM or AI, or the social and ecological impact. The handwaving is when others think the technology won't improve from its current model and think rocks and bacteria have more consciousness. That's where Lemmy goes emotional and put strawman arguments. Even detractors of AI not on Lemmy envision AI would improve over time in spite of current limitations. It's the uncanny valley from what I can tell, which is an understandable reaction if a person's job is threatened to be taken over by AI.
You are speaking from ignorance. It has nothing to do with what it is called and everything to do with what it is. You don't know what it is, therefore you can't form an analysis about what is going on nor can you even begin to understand what people are talking about. You don't even understand what the uncanny valley is nor are you aware that the uncanny valley is an incredibly frought concept with many many studies completely unable to replicate the original research's findings and significant debate in the scientific community about what it is and what causes it. There's honestly no possible way for the problem to be a problem of the uncanny valley because the problem of the uncanny valley is far too problematic to be explanatory for the behavior that you are observing but can't even understand.
Agree to disagree but I certainly see the exact same reaction portrayed on Spielberg's AI, Astroboy, iRobot and Detroit: Beyond Human.
You can't disagree or agree with something you don't understand. You're just saying words that make you feel safe and refuse to engage in the conversation
As if splitting hairs makes any difference.