Yes, LLMs are not good for us

Why Large Language Models Are Not Good For Us List Grokker succinctly summarises why LLMs (so-called AI) are bad for us. Here are a few more reasons: Using LLMs makes your brain lazy. Your brain is like a muscle – use it or lose it. Yes, doing hard tasks is taxing. That’s the point. The work you are sweating through right now is making you better able to try even harder things later. LLMs make you feel like you are being productive while you produce mediocre content. While, yes, you can tick off a lot from your to-do list, LLMs – by virtue of being a summary of human content – are only able to give you the average of the training data. That means at least 50% of the population could do better. Your “average” is being dragged down by the fact that some truly terrible and weak work is in the training data. The LLM can’t tell the difference. LLMs train you to become dependent on them Using an LLM to do something gives you a quick dopamine high, while your brain gets flabby. The next time…