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[–] LargeMarge 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Someone else made this analogy somewhere else on this post, but the first cars sucked too. Horses were probably a legitimately better option for quite a while before cars developed enough to become what they are today.

If all that you’re left with is “hey, transformers are pretty cool, and I look forward to seeing how they contribute in their own partial way to our collective technical means of saving the planet, and incidentally anti-trust legislation should put people like Altman behind bars for the rest of their lives” then so be it!

Cool, because that's pretty much what I'm trying to get at here. It's a shame the people running the companies developing these tools are shitheads, but that doesn't change the fact that the underlying technology has potential and personally I look forward to seeing how it develops. There are people all over this thread (rightfully) criticizing climate impacts and shady business practices, but that doesn't mean copilot can't be useful sometimes or that it can't become more useful with time. To me it just seems like people willfully ignore any potential good this tech could bring just because others aren't using it very well right now.