technology

LLMs are a dead-end technology that have become the Topic of every conversation because they're being forcefully crammed into every corner of our lives by corporate interests desperately fighting against the tendency of the rate of profit to decline by opening new product horizons, as well as by Tech Morons who think they're literally producing God.

The ultimate goal of the technology, as steered by the investors pouring a trillion dollars into it, is to automate information-capital laborers. Accountants, software developers, customer service, lawyers, doctors, translators, managers, and so on. All desk jobs. Is this bad? Not necessarily, but we live in a world where you will suffer and die without a job.

Further, the dystopic dream of automating all jobs isn't some big win for the capitalists in terms of cost. LLMs use more resources and more money at a worse environmental impact to produce worse results than human employees, and it's seemingly intractable from their design. The only victory capitalists take from their mass deployment is in some hypothetical great victory over labor. It doesn't matter if it costs more and performs worse because it can't strike or demand better wages or unionize or drag them out of their homes in the night or blow up their factories.

So in gestalt, LLMs are a tool for capitalists to crush labor, and the enormous expense inherent to their use means they have highly limited utility in any socialist system where they'd be responsibly wielded.