Ed Zitron

Like it's just dreadfully boring in comparison.

That's boring.

google will just kind of otherwise would have just kept adding and tweaking in a very like economically uh reasonable way saying forever it's like yeah i thought like the reason that people like llm search is pretty simple that it responds to search how people have always used search which is questions you're like hey what about this and this i've used ai mode with google maybe three times and i always use it as like a trawling expedition to say like

Has anyone ever said anything like this?

And then it would give me a bunch of fake citations.

Like, just that happens every time.

But then I'll find one weird PDF, and it'll be like, oh, cool.

But isn't that... If LLMs didn't exist, I would expect Google Search to do that by now.

Like, that feels like a natural progression.

But it's just...

normal kind of boring so i always say it's like oh if they called it library models it wouldn't be that big a deal but it would be a more accurate like you just choose a regular name this people weren't freaking out about platform as a service tools didn't hear all this bullshit about kubernetes which is way more fun to say than large language models people have taken this and the thing is i don't think that the strategy was always we're gonna doom troll like i don't think they sat and thought about it very much

I think they just kind of oaf-maxed their way.

They just bumbled into it, and they're like, it's scary, and then they saw how well it worked.

I genuinely think, on an ethical level, it's one of the most disgraceful things anyone's ever done, technologically.

I think it's just, on top of the obfuscation of what these things actually do, it's horrible.

It's a cruel thing to do.

I hear from people all the time just being like, am I going to lose my job to this?

I'm like, why is my boss telling me I'm going to lose my job to this?

What is this?

Why is it different?