Rishav :neofox_cute: on Nostr: I don’t know if I wrote about this on mastodon before, but what you wrote is ...

I don’t know if I wrote about this on mastodon before, but what you wrote is literally true for almost every technology in use today. There’s nothing intrinsically different about LLMs in that regard. I see the discussions about LLM usage and labor and these are the very same debates that surrounded the introduction of mechanized mining technology in Chattisgarh in the 70s (I think?)

In fact, my pet theory is that the reason elite knowledge workers (engineers, academia, writers) especially see LLMs as a threat is because it threatens their livelihood directly. Very very often this eliteness has been constructed and is enforced by extremely arbitrary, exclusionary and colonial (for the lack of a better word here) mechanisms. And I would even go so far as to say this sense of elitism is often highly misplaced. The very idea that LLMs can replace them is a (well deserved IMO) attack on their ego, so to speak.

There is zero reason tech workers should be so overpaid compared to other workers. Furthermore, tech workers have historically been in the business of fucking other labor over so it’s quite funny to see them realize that oh shit technology we make has consequences. I’d like to see us eat some humble pie tbh, we aren’t that special.