Technology

LLM bad upvotes to the left please

I guess my opinion will be hugely unpopular but it is what it is - I'd argue it's natural selection and not an issue of LLM's in general.

Healthy and (emotionally) inteligent humans don't get killed by LLM's. They know it's a tool, they know it's just software. It's not a person and it does not guarantee correctness.

Getting killed because LLM's told you so - the person was in mental distress already and ready to harm themselves. The LLM's are basically just the straw that broke the camels back. Same thing with physical danger. If you believe drinking bleach helps with back pain - there is nothing that can save you from your own stupidity.

LLM's are like a knife. It can be a tool to prepare food or it can be a weapon. It's up to the one using it.

I don't think "AI" is the problem here. Watching the watchers doesn't hurt, but I think the AI-haters are grasping for straws here. In fact, when comparing to the actual suicide numbers, this "AI is causing Suicide !" seems a bit contrived/hollow, tbh. Were the haters also as active in noticing the 49 thousand suicide deaths every year, or did they just now find it a problem ?

Besides, if there's a criminal here, it would be the private corp that provided the AI service, not a broad category of technology - "AI". People that hate AI, seem to really just hate the effects of Capitalism.

https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html (This is for US alone !) overview

If image not shown: Over 49,000 people died by suicide in 2023. 1 death every 11 minutes. Many adults think about suicide or attempt suicide. 12.8 million seriously thought about suicide. 3.7 million made a plan for suicide. 1.5 million attempted suicide.

Darwinian triumphs?