<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime" class="u-url mention">@<span>fasterthanlime</span></a></span> it's a device that mostly generates bullshit, that seems like a workable label?</p><p>also I think you're just misreading "labor" in your interlocutor's complaint here, it isn't literally referring to the process of doing work. it's referring to the metonym of "labor" for the laboring classes, i.e. the proletariat. the goal of LLMs is to destroy the power of *organized labor*. it's not very good at doing work, it will not destroy "labor" in the sense you're thinking</p>
