I have this same sentiment, I took a long introspective journey to evaluate my bias. Even then LLMs have extremely limited use cases. But they can be useful, they just have a ton of baggage attached to them and condition.
Really feels like handling the ring from LOTR sometimes. Corrupting it’s user even if they seek to use it for good
We don’t, blame Oracle it’s their fault
Ok just say “large language model”
It’s more descriptive of what it actually is? It’s not intelligence, so “counterfeit intelligence” is just as bad.
And yeah when it’s random ass abbreviations that’s valid, but when it’s “LLM” which is in every single news cycle, not as much of a problem… especially if you are on a site like lemmy. No one is going to ask you.
Search is probably one of the few “ok” uses for LLMs if you find a way to reduce the carbon footprint and train on ethical material
I utilize an idea stack, I can’t finish one until I’ve touched the others