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Most people agree that there are legitimate applications for LLM technology, like in the medical field. This comes up every single thread.

Then you have trillions of dollars of investment on the promise of eroding worker power, and letting capital enunciate itself without labour. That’s what it’s essentially all for. The “legitimate” uses of the technology are not even a passing concern for investors except insofar as they can point to it to excuse their grift.

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Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What is the legitimate use for LLMs in the medical field?

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- mad_lentil@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Like medical research, discovering drugs, folding proteins. There’s also evidence they can be used to help analyse x-rays.
  
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  - Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    LLMs don’t do those things. Do you know what an LLM is?
    
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    mad_lentil@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Rightrightright, I mean they can help with that stuff by churning though large sets of data or by statistical analysis to look for early signs of cancer, etc.
    
    I’m not a researcher and I don’t use them myself, but I know a thing or two about how LLMs work. Could be you could school me though if you know a lot.
    
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TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You say most people believe this, but I see many people every day for weeks now claiming Linux is vibecoded now. Why? Three stories: 1) months ago LLM use was not outright banned in kernel development 2) Linus admitted to using LLMs in an experimental branch to find and patch bugs 3) a recent shift in attitude happened, toward LLM-driven PRs because there were too many, and the reaction from Linus and the other maintainers was to raise the bar for submitting PRs to reduce the chance of slop wasting people’s time.

All of this was a series of level headed responses and course corrections which at no time was indicative of anything more than LLMs are useful sometimes. Yet people all over Lemmy are saying shit like “Linux is all in on vibecoding”. Besides that issue, I’ve seen and been involved in many conversations where idiots will say that any use of AI is super unethical and unacceptable. The binary thinking on this issue is strong on here.

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- mad_lentil@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ah well I agree I would Linux maintainers to take a more principled stance against LLM contributions given all the negative externalities of the technology as it exists today.
  
  there’s a strong case to be made that there is no way to use the current “frontier” models ethically because of how they were trained and who their patrons are. I would love to see that acknowledged.
  
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  - TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    So you are on the side of binary thinking, in the end. Cool.
    
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    mad_lentil@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    What makes you think that? I am on no side. I’m just trying to be objective. Everything I said is factually borne out afaik.
    
    Also
    
    you are on the side of
    
    binary thinking
    
    Lol now you’re just playing with, very funny ;p
    
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