Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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  • LLMs, as the name suggests, are language models - not knowledge machines. Answering questions correctly isn’t what they’re designed to do. The fact that they get anything right isn’t because they “know” things, but because they’ve been trained on a lot of correct information. That’s why they come off as more intelligent than they really are. At the end of the day, they were built to generate natural-sounding language - and that’s all. Just because something can speak doesn’t mean it knows what it’s talking about.


















  • What do you mean they don’t give you a choice? You always have the choice not to use it. DDG gives me AI summaries and I never read them. WhatsApp has an LLM button I’ve never pressed. Twitter has Grok, never tried it. Android probably has Gemini somewhere, and I don’t even know how to access it. As for Proton’s LLM, I hadn’t even heard of it despite paying for their email for a decade. I just don’t see how something existing as a feature in a service I already use somehow mandates me to engage with it.

    If someone is so deeply anti-LLM that they want to avoid all this on principle, I don’t necessarily have an issue with that. But personally, I genuinely struggle to grasp the logic behind it. People seem to have a strong emotional response to LLMs - your reply makes that pretty clear - and that’s the part that really boggles my mind.