Saying something nice about Claude

A developer who has been critical of AI and large language models acknowledges the technology's potential harms, including economic bubble concerns and social damage from AI-generated content, while also noting some positive aspects of Claude.

I have been accused of being overly negative about AI, particularly large language models, and I have my share of issues with the technology. I do believe that we are pouring trillions of dollars into a bubble based on business models that can't possibly justify the investment and that the resulting crash will do great damage to the economy. I believe that the technology will never be capable of doing much of what has been promised and that much of what it is capable of AI slop, disinformation, non-consensual sexualized images is already doing a tremendous amount of social harm.