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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9077097" data-attributes="member: 7035894">Whenever a disruptive technology arises, there is always a strong reaction in favour of protecting the status quo, and always framed in terms of protecting the vulnerable. Plato's argument against teaching writing could almost have been written today, as an argument against using LLMs:Similar arguments were made against the printing press, against novels, against the phonograph, against movies, against television, against calculators.LLMs are already disruptive, and we have barely scratched the surface. So folks are right to be alarmed, but trying to ban them isn't going to work. It isn't even going to make a dent. We need to figure out how to harness them to enhance human creativity, because they are not going away.And yeah, this is going to hurt people. Disruptive technologies always do. And we never do enough to support the folks who are impacted, who lose livelihoods, whose towns lose primary employers, who are too old to just retrain, move, start over. That's where our focus needs to be, we need to do better, and one more thing history tells us is that we probably won't. As for this particular &quot;ban,&quot; it hardly deserves the name. It's so full of holes that it could barely be called a speed bump.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9077097, member: 7035894"] Whenever a disruptive technology arises, there is always a strong reaction in favour of protecting the status quo, and always framed in terms of protecting the vulnerable. Plato's argument against teaching writing could almost have been written today, as an argument against using LLMs: Similar arguments were made against the printing press, against novels, against the phonograph, against movies, against television, against calculators. LLMs are already disruptive, and we have barely scratched the surface. So folks are right to be alarmed, but trying to ban them isn't going to work. It isn't even going to make a dent. We need to figure out how to harness them to enhance human creativity, because they are not going away. And yeah, this is going to hurt people. Disruptive technologies always do. And we never do enough to support the folks who are impacted, who lose livelihoods, whose towns lose primary employers, who are too old to just retrain, move, start over. That's where our focus needs to be, we need to do better, and one more thing history tells us is that we probably won't. As for this particular "ban," it hardly deserves the name. It's so full of holes that it could barely be called a speed bump. [/QUOTE]

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