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Indeed, even if I were to minimise what LLMs can do, they are still achieving what "targeted advertising" very obviously isn't.



They're both short sighted attempts at extracting profit while ignoring all negative consequences.


To extent I agree, I think that's true for all tech since the plough, fire, axles.

But I would otherwise say that most (though not all*) AI researchers seem to be deeply concerned about the set of all potential negative consequences, including mutually incompatible outcomes where we don't know which one we're even heading towards yet.

* And not just Yann LeCun — though, given his position, it would still be pretty bad even if it was just him dismissing the possibility of anything going wrong




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