Post by @junkman@mastodon.social

2026-05-29 15:28 UTC

@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io I don't partake on the LLM stuff but they've already proved some degree of usefulness. I don't think people in general would trust them with sensitive (health, well being) stuff but from what I hear, some people are very good at wielding it as a tool. I don't know how my car works, I'd be a terrible mechanic and racer. Still, it's very handy tool for me to move around.

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@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io 2026-05-29 15:29

@junkman@mastodon.social sorry, did I seem like I was interested in yet another defence of LLMs?

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@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io 2026-05-29 15:34

@junkman@mastodon.social like in all seriousness it's fine to have some degree of missing knowledge about how your car works, but if you believe that it's capable of avoiding collisions by itself and your method of reducing collisions is just to ask it to try harder, you'd be a danger to yourself and others. I'm not asking people to have deep knowledge of the mathematics behind LLMs, but I do expect people who are actively advocating their adoption not to make up outright fantasies about how they work.

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@mushroom_man@infosec.exchange 2026-05-29 16:26

@junkman@mastodon.social I see your car analogy and I raise you a slavery analogy: that, too, had “proved some degree of usefulness” for “some people very good at wielding it as a tool”. And I bet you’d rather not know how it worked (works) if you were the one finding it handy for the benefits it provided you. Saying you don’t partake while loudly proclaiming its usefulness is not fooling anyone.

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