Come on, you have to admit that “proper use” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The GIGO problem is not just a result of "mis"use, but a pervasive and steadily worsening problem.

Yea, didn’t you hear calling it otherwise makes you tHe EneMy?

THE WASHING MACHINE MUST FEED!

I believe it does, without taking away from the core message.

I think you are critically (I’m not saying intentionally) missing the middle ground in your assessment. Large generative models are great for repetitive, homogenous tasks like surveillance, speech recognition, assembly line quality control, etc.

If I try to look at it from your point of view, regarding creative tasks like developing new software, you have one side claiming that you can make hammers out of chocolate and throw away all your proper ones, and another that’s portrayed as being unreasonable for opposing that.

AFAIK, beehaw.org has recently defederated from the 3rd big tankie instance, which is why I’m here.

Well, hellooooo beehaw!