This is a tired, weak, and pathetic argument. Opposition to technology is very reasonable if that technology is doing more harm than good.

In the case of present-day LLMs, the vast majority of the public finds them to be more harmful than beneficial.

Why accept a decreasing quality of live instead of sensible regulation?

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xtracto 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I understand your point and clearly see that LLMs cannot be compared to audio ... but ...

Back when I was a kid, music, audio and sound systems had high quality as a standard.

Nowadays people listen to music mostly with bluetooth headphones which basically recompress an already compressed audio signal to send them in low quality. Also, it is more and more difficult to find OK stereos that play music in good quality. Either, you have to pay very high prices for overpriced "audiophile" equipment, or you are stuck with cheap chinese MP3 players.

Yet, society and markets have spoken. Sometimes society is happy to accept marginally worse products in exchange of price and convenience.

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GaryBluto 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> the vast majority of the public finds them to be more harmful than beneficial.

Examples of ridiculous and incorrect beliefs once held by majorities:

- Spontaneous generation

- "Miasma" causes disease

- Earth is at the centre of the universe

- The heart is the seat of thought and the brain is useless

- Cold weather causes colds

Don't trust "the vast majority" to get anything right, ever.

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danny_codes 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Examples of reasonable beliefs held by the public:

Killing is bad. Kids should be protected.

I mean you have a point it’s just not particularly useful or helpful for the conversation

	▲	JuniperMesos 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"Won't somebody think of the children" is constantly used sarcastically in order to dismiss the concerns of people who want to ban something they claim is harmful to children. This is often a completely justified rejoinder - many regulatory policies that thoughtless people argue for in the name of children's safety are counterproductive, disproportional, or otherwise harmful.

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ciupicri 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What would that sensible regulation look like?