this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2026
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"AI" is not just another tool to me, it is a political and economic effort to disenfranchise the skilled, for example by scraping countless sites and doing their best to launder the data. In this way they will be channeling skill in to their own hands, while channeling wealth out of the hands of those who are skilled. Sam Altman already said that the goal is turning intelligence into a utility like water or power, to make the masses dependent on them to source information. To do anything complex technologically. That doesn't seem much like just a simple tool to me. By design, in order to boost engagement with chatbots, the empty and hollow interactions have a parasocial quality...On the surface seeming polite and helpful (but software can never feel sad, happy, horny, or make decisions so there is just dead air on the other side). That can get people to engage with it for countless hours, isolate them from real people, put them into a state of psychosis even. Does that seem like just a mere tool to you?
Aside from some of those major concerns, it even hurts the environment, people's understanding of code (which is intentional by the way), has caused massive economic consequences when people are lain off because CEOs are so delusionally into LLMs in the workplace thinking it will be the god that can print them everlasting profits. However, the use of so called AI, will just increase the technical debt, make code unmaintainable, cause problems that nobody can fix because they don't understand their own code anymore (because they were forced to engage with the things and just full send absolute nonsense without editing). You can think what you like, but I don't trust LLMs or the source of them. It's just very sus to me, I won't ever use them. As you never talk to software, not even once.
The current implementation of it is quite awful. The companies source their data unethically, use fossil fuels to power their data centres, etc. It’s a long list of problems.
The current implementation doesn’t have to be the only one. I think there are better ways to do this. The tool is still neutral to me, but the application isn’t. A knife can be used for slicing tomatoes or murdering people. That doesn’t make the knife an evil tool.
LLMs can be made in better ways too. Currently, they aren’t, which means that in their current state nobody should be paying for LLMs. If these companies start acting more ethically, which they won’t, they could actually earn some of that money.
And then there’s the usage side as well. We’re already beginning to see what happens when you use an LLM in a wrong way. The damage is pretty clear. However, that doesn’t have to be the only way to use an LLM. There should be rules, regulations, guidelines and best practices about this thing. Currently, there are none, so people do just about anything they can think of. Most of it is pretty bad, but that doesn’t have to be the only outcome.
I don't think there is any coming back from this as I think the reputation and level of harm that has been done is too high, it will always be software that is treated with great suspicion and with good reason. There is simply too much harm with very little benefit for people at large. I would rather it all burn and be mostly abandon ware in consumer/business tech. Only used in the original context for academic purposes that it was previously used, without all the weird, creepy cruft that technofascists bolted on. Human beings have more important matters to focus on than LLMs to be frank, it's not an important enough thing to further develop at the moment. I think the higher priority should be repairing the damage done by irresponsible corpos; bringing them to task and properly making sure there are barriers in place so that something like this can never happen again. LLMs will not save us or make our lives particularly better. Developing LLMs further will just bring back another form of the "Torment Nexus" the thing we should never build. But that is just my opinion. As I don't entertain "booster hopium" like some seem to.