My remark that LLMs were "born shitty" was in the context of a discussion of Cory Doctorow's notion of "enshittification". That process involves something that starts of beneficial for consumers (or at least the consumers in focus). LLMs used as synthetic text extruding machines have no legitimate use cases and --- for all the reasons discussed in the stochastic parrots paper --- are prone to harmful outputs to boot.

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Sitting down for a lunch interview is definitely an interesting experience! Leaving the roughly two-hour conversation with George Hammond, I felt like we'd covered good ground but had no idea what of that would make it into the piece. In the end, I think this covers it pretty well, though I (of course) have a couple of quibbles/some context to add.

https://www.ft.com/content/9029cc1c-4a3f-42ca-9939-f3ef8e8336ae

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