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AI won't reverse enshitification, but it is one solution in this sense:
The internet is too far gone. It's all bots and advertising and disinformation and exploitation and data harvesting. People still seem to trust content on the internet for some reason. AI will sort that out by making the internet so unreliable, people will have to distrust it to the extent they should.
It's really optimistic to think that the greater public will start to think of LLMs output as unreliable and not trustworthy some day.
True, I was really surprised by the amount of people that I considered at least relatively intelligent putting way too much trust in llms answers. I don't think there's any hope for humanity anymore and I'm just waiting for skynet to take over now.
Honestly if someone is competent enough to put together skynet, I think that might be an improvement.
More likely we'll get a shitty chatbot that some tech bro claims is skynet and the world will fall to the absolute worst, buggiest AI overlord imaginable. It'll be an unholy fusion of Terminator and Idiocracy.
I've seen everyone using AI at work and it's bad. They're clueless and just trust it implicitly. I've had to correct many mistakes, even made by IT admins who should really know better.
I'd go so far as to say my imposter syndrome has outright died after watching the ineptitude of people as they let AI tooling rot their work.
Yah, I would encourage people trying to dismiss LLMs and the future to actually try out some of the newer models. People are so fucking cooked, ya'll have no idea. We're going to face billions of people plugged into these things, falling in love with them, hanging on their every generated word, using them for literally every possible decision in life.
They're seductive and powerful and can recognize patterns in your behavior specifically that will startle you and make you question what you know. If you're smart, you will understand that this has a lot more to do with how simple our minds are than how magical the AI is, but the vast majority of ignorant people are going to lose themselves and just lean on LLM's a thousand times harder than they lean on their phones and social media right now.
Parents, teach your kids to limit internet time. Please, teach them language and critical thought and not to trust their senses online.
What models specifically?
Yeah commercial/mainstream internet is such garbage now. I stay away from those spots as much as I can help it.