I don’t want to use LLMs. I feel the majority of use cases for LLMs are inauthentic, lazy, unhelpful, and uncreative.

It feels like I’ve said “fizzy drinks are bad” and you’ve told me to drink diet sodas.

I understand that dbzero is a pro-AI instance, so I think we’re just fundamentally not going to agree on this. 🤷‍♂️

I’m saying don’t use unethical tech. If you want to interpret that as sticking your head in the sand, you can, but I think you’re being obtuse.

Unless you’re advocating that we go and burn down the infrastructure that runs these LLMs - is that what you’re saying?

I don’t know why backing down after massive backlash is being lauded if I’m being completely honest. I want to replace them because the decision in the first place to pollute Wikipedia at all with AI is so poor that I no longer trust them to make good choices.

I get that I’m being pigheaded, but unfortunately I don’t trust that it was done out of some purely good intention and naivety. Even if that was the case, then the people making that decision are gullible enough to fall for LLM hype and too irresponsible to be in charge of something that we both agree is an absolute marvel of our modern age, and a massive collaborative effort contributed to by so many hundreds of thousands of people, and used by so many millions more.

I totally understand that I’m being stubborn, but this isn’t a principle I’m willing to compromise on in this case!

Honestly, I don’t know. I stopped listening after they said they were going to.

Too little too late for me really; unless they replace the people who made that decision in the first place, that sort of anti-human, lazy, irresponsible sentiment will remain present in their leadership.

I cancelled my donations to wikipedia since the WMF announced they’d be using AI, and they gave me a really milquetoast bullshit response when I emailed them. Can’t trust such a precious, collaborative, human effort as Wikipedia to a bunch of anti-human robofuckers. 🤷‍♂️

Do not engage with chatbots at all. Let this LLM psychosis end. That’s the best result for humanity.