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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9797790" data-attributes="member: 725">The whole quote: "it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."It's not for nothing that there's a 150+ year old term for it, a "Birmingham screwdriver". More info: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument" target="_blank">Law of the instrument - Wikipedia</a>Just because people (should) know better, doesn't mean they actually act better...Sure, people have had human brains for thousands of years, but they still kept using that hammer for everything. And that's also the case with LLM and image generation, people get one tool and want to do everything with it, not asking if that's the best tool for the job, not asking if the output is actually desirable or correct, it just seems correct. These tools give power to people, real and imagined power... It gives people that don't have the skills, the willingness or ability to learn, a tool that would seemingly allow them to do things they normally couldn't.Compare it to cars becoming popular (in the US), sure people could still walk, bike or use a horse, but going long distances made cars more desirable. Cars were dangerous to people, unclean, unhealthy, expensive, required a lot of expensive infrastructure, etc. People aren't even that skilled at driving... Looking specifically at the US, it's still a very car centric country, many countries aren't anymore, even though they initially followed the US example after WW2... I expect similar things to happen all over the world, countries/cultures that will rely heavily on LLM and image generation, while others won't...And what people call 'AI' is just the next step in the industrialization, automation trend of the last 250+ years. And you could go even further back where people were replaced by animals, animals replaced by primitive machines (windmills for example), etc. in the two decades before LLM and image generation became common, I was already hard at work replacing people with computer systems/processes, heck often even replacing myself. But now suddenly LLM and image generation are 'problematic' amongst a certain subset of the population... But I remember protests in my youth when factories got automated, the world didn't end, those people got new jobs. Heck, around here unemployment is now significantly lower then in my youth.</blockquote>

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